For the past seventy years, China’s relations with Taiwan have maintained a fretful status quo through a balance of restraint and saber-rattling, insecurity and pride, and transparent fictions expressed with studied ambiguity.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan shone a light on the fragility of this equilibrium.
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives is the most senior American politician to visit Taiwan in a quarter of a century. Chinese President Xi Jinping responded with undiplomatic menace, telling US President Joe Biden, “Those who play with fire will only get burnt”. Chinese warships encircled Taiwan, Chinese warplanes crossed into its airspace, and Chinese ballistic missiles hurtled over its territory.
Is this meaningless theatre, or meaningful risks to the peace and economic wellbeing of the globe? Are China’s actions an expression of impotent rage, or signs that it feels confident it can now wield force in the international system with impunity? Does this represent a moment of escalation between China and the rest of the world, and if so, escalation towards what end?
Two highly-respected scholars and observers of the region will join us to plumb these and other questions at our upcoming live-audio Reddit Talk.
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Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also an editor-at-large at The Diplomat magazine. His expertise is in the Asia-Pacific region. A widely-published writer and podcaster, he is the author of Kim Jong-un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea.
David Sacks is a Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focuses on Sino-American relations, Sino-Taiwanese relations, and broader Chinese foreign policy. He is currently at work on a book entitled The Realist: The Life and Ideas of Hans Morgenthau.
The Reddit Talk will begin on Monday, 08 August 2022, at 16h00 EDT (13h00 PDT / 20h00 UTC / 04h00+1d CST). Identify your local time here.
As a Taiwanese I appreciate your efforts for holding such a live talk. But unfortunately I can't join this conversation myslef since it is scheduled at 4am in my timezone :(
dieyoufool3 on August 8th, 2022 at 05:53 UTC »
Day 12 | I'm doing a Reddit Talk today (Monday).
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For the past seventy years, China’s relations with Taiwan have maintained a fretful status quo through a balance of restraint and saber-rattling, insecurity and pride, and transparent fictions expressed with studied ambiguity.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan shone a light on the fragility of this equilibrium.
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives is the most senior American politician to visit Taiwan in a quarter of a century. Chinese President Xi Jinping responded with undiplomatic menace, telling US President Joe Biden, “Those who play with fire will only get burnt”. Chinese warships encircled Taiwan, Chinese warplanes crossed into its airspace, and Chinese ballistic missiles hurtled over its territory.
Is this meaningless theatre, or meaningful risks to the peace and economic wellbeing of the globe? Are China’s actions an expression of impotent rage, or signs that it feels confident it can now wield force in the international system with impunity? Does this represent a moment of escalation between China and the rest of the world, and if so, escalation towards what end?
Two highly-respected scholars and observers of the region will join us to plumb these and other questions at our upcoming live-audio Reddit Talk.
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Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also an editor-at-large at The Diplomat magazine. His expertise is in the Asia-Pacific region. A widely-published writer and podcaster, he is the author of Kim Jong-un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea.
David Sacks is a Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focuses on Sino-American relations, Sino-Taiwanese relations, and broader Chinese foreign policy. He is currently at work on a book entitled The Realist: The Life and Ideas of Hans Morgenthau.
The Reddit Talk will begin on Monday, 08 August 2022, at 16h00 EDT (13h00 PDT / 20h00 UTC / 04h00+1d CST). Identify your local time here.
HeHH1329 on August 8th, 2022 at 06:50 UTC »
As a Taiwanese I appreciate your efforts for holding such a live talk. But unfortunately I can't join this conversation myslef since it is scheduled at 4am in my timezone :(
Sea_Student_1452 on August 8th, 2022 at 07:36 UTC »
why is r/worldnew being promoted here, that place is a cesspit