Strait of Emergency?

Oriana Skylar Mastro's article "The Taiwan Temptation" (July/August 2021) is one of many recent articles that warns of the growing risk of Chinese aggression in the Taiwan Strait. Such articles have become so common that they have created something of an invasion panic in Washington—one that is damaging to both the United States' and Taiwan's interests. Anxiety about impending Chinese aggression was part of what drove Washington in recent...