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Washington Examiner | The Hudson Institute think tank hosted a much-needed debate on Monday. The motion: "Winning in Ukraine is critically important for deterring a war in Taiwan." Hudson's President John Walters proposed the motion, with the Marathon Initiative's Elbridge Colby opposing......
VOA | Elbridge Colby joins VOA to discuss the state of U.S.-Korean security relations ahead of South Korea’s President Yoon visiting Washington....
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The American Conservative | Keep it simple, if you can. We impose paradigms on a complicated world because we must—without these patterns we could not act, only react writes Micah Meadowcraft....
Eunomia | If our current containment policy somehow counts as appeasement, I would hate to see what these people think confrontation looks like Daniel Larison writes.
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Politico | For years, Colby has held that China is the principal threat abroad, and that the United States should focus on Asia to the near-exclusion of everywhere else — including Russia and Ukraine....
The New York Times | But some American foreign policy thinkers are skeptical that European nations would give robust military support to the United States in a conflict over Taiwan, or be willing to impose harsh economic sanctions on China..........
L’Obs | Why does such a prospect worry Americans so much? Why is the possible invasion of Taiwan, an island no larger than a French region and forty times less populated than China, its powerful neighbor, the worst nightmare of the leaders of the United States?..........
The Intercept | Despite China warning “serious confrontation in the U.S.-China relationship,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed plans to meet with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen when she visits California on Wednesday. ...
Financial Times | In supporting Ukraine, the US is not just doing the right thing. It is shoring up its own long-term position in Asia. The wonder is that so many American conservatives can’t see it.........
SEMAFOR | Speaker McCarthy should therefore give President Tsai a very direct and forceful message …