US, China enter dangerous territory above Taiwan

At a particularly tense time, in October 2020, U.S. intelligence reports detailed how Chinese leaders were concerned that President Trump was planning an attack. These concerns, which could have been misinterpreted, prompted General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to call his counterpart in Beijing to assure him otherwise. The Taiwan question has ceased to be a sort of restricted and confidential matter, and it has become a central theater if not the central drama of the US-China strategic competition, said Evan Medeiros, who served on the National Security Council of the United States. President Obama….