Valuable insights here in this piece, well done! Currently, Beijing believes it can push/test the limit of coercion by force without consequence. A tempered whilst unambiguous response from Washington against these activities is sorely needed, sooner rather than later.
A really excellent article with razor sharp analysis that doesn’t just diagnose the problem but offers crystal clear answers. Well done and thank you! I would be fascinated to know what role you think other nations could/should play. Avoiding conflict in the region is in (almost) every major economy’s interest, and this can’t just be a problem owned by the US right? EU of course doesn’t have the same literal firepower as the US but could and should it impose serious costs?
On a more serious note: the joke lands because the real pattern is repetition. Drills are not just practice, they are message traffic and muscle memory, and the tempo itself becomes the pressure. The risk is not “the big invasion tomorrow.” It is the slow conditioning where crossings, patrols, and alerts feel routine until the day they are not.
Valuable insights here in this piece, well done! Currently, Beijing believes it can push/test the limit of coercion by force without consequence. A tempered whilst unambiguous response from Washington against these activities is sorely needed, sooner rather than later.
A really excellent article with razor sharp analysis that doesn’t just diagnose the problem but offers crystal clear answers. Well done and thank you! I would be fascinated to know what role you think other nations could/should play. Avoiding conflict in the region is in (almost) every major economy’s interest, and this can’t just be a problem owned by the US right? EU of course doesn’t have the same literal firepower as the US but could and should it impose serious costs?
Looking forward to 2 Fast 2 Formosan: Strait Drift.
On a more serious note: the joke lands because the real pattern is repetition. Drills are not just practice, they are message traffic and muscle memory, and the tempo itself becomes the pressure. The risk is not “the big invasion tomorrow.” It is the slow conditioning where crossings, patrols, and alerts feel routine until the day they are not.