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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently conducted a war game testing the scenarios and outcomes in a possible U.S.-China war over Taiwan. The reason for the exercise was that, “What was once unthinkable — direct conflict between the United States and China — has now become a commonplace discussion in the national security community.” Actually, the near-doomsday scenario played out in the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, when China fired missiles toward Taiwan and Washington sent a carrier battle group through the Taiwan Strait. A Clinton official called it “our own Cuban missile crisis; we had stared into...
