US is having a crisis of commitment. India must ask what it means for Indo-Pacific stability

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China is facing domestic troubles too, which might stay its hand. At least this is what Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen seems to think: In a recent interview with The New York Times, she argued that China’s leadership is too “overwhelmed” with domestic troubles to consider invading Taiwan. But this can’t be considered as a serious assessment. One can only hope that the Taiwanese President’s views do not reflect the country’s strategic planning because it is always foolish to assume such best-case scenarios about your adversary. Israel, to mention only one example, appears to have dismissed intelligence about a Hamas attack...