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By Lee Seong-hyon Last year, many South Korean security experts pointed out the two geopolitical hot spots, the South China Sea and Taiwan, as having the largest potential to ignite a military conflagration. This year, they ― without hesitation ― point to Taiwan as their first choice, while sparingly mentioning the South China Sea. The fact that China escalated its latest military tensions with Taiwan ― right before the Zurich meeting between the White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi ― and deescalated them after the meeting, indicates that, for China, the...
