30 April 2024

Stabilizing the Growing Taiwan Crisis: New Messaging and Understandings are Urgently Needed

Michael D. Swaine

In the leadup to Taiwan’s January 13 presidential election, many observers expected a highly belligerent response from Beijing if the very pro–independence Lai Ching–te were elected, a response perhaps greater than the intensive, prolonged saber rattling and strong rhetoric that followed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s quasi–official trip to the island in 2022.1This, by and large, did not occur. 

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