National Defense University’s Joel Wuthnow will be discussion guest as seven-week event continues
The threat of an invasion by China looms over Taiwan. As the United Kingdom’s news magazine The Guardian reported last week, Taiwan faces an irreconcilable conundrum. Its government wants to continue operating independently without threat of a Chinese invasion. But China and its Communist party have long considered Taiwan part of China even depicting as such on a 2021 map and may use force to crush that independence.
The 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit’s session Wednesday will focus on the simmering China-Taiwan relationship. The National Defense University’s Joel Wuthnow will join moderator David Ulbrich, program director and associate professor in Norwich University’s Master of Arts in History and in Military History programs, in a discussion marking the summit’s third week.
China wants pre-Trump era back
By Joseph
Bosco
For its first month, US President Joe Biden’s administration lamented the “former guy’s mess” on the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy, vaccinations and foreign policy, but during his CNN town hall, Biden finally said: “I’m tired of talking about [former US president] Donald Trump. I don’t want to talk about him anymore.”
However, China’s leaders believe that blaming the former administration for Sino-US tensions will leverage anti-Trump animus for Biden’s “flexibility” on contentious issues. With Trump gone, Washington can forget the “China threat” and revert to the “normalcy” that Beijing found so advantageous during the administrations of former US presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
‘LISTENING, LEARNING’: The US’ competitive edge over China has eroded, but is still intact, and the US would work to sharpen it, the Pentagon chief said/ AFP, HONOLULU, Hawaii
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Saturday said he was traveling to Asia to boost military cooperation with US allies and foster “credible deterrence” against China.
Austin embarked on his first foreign visit as Pentagon chief via Hawaii, seat of the US military command for the Indo-Pacific region.
“This is all about alliances and partnerships,” Austin told reporters on the trip, which is to include meetings with key allies in Tokyo, New Delhi and Seoul.
“It’s also about enhancing capabilities,” he said, adding that while the US was focused on the anti-extremist struggle in the Middle East, China was modernizing its
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