The CCP Wants to Attack Taiwan but Military Lacks Real Combat Experience Commentary Recently, many conflict hotspots are suddenly heating up around the world. When it comes to international conflict hotspots, there have been essentially no big changes from the end of the last century to the present day. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East has now become the Israeli-Iranian conflict; volatility within Eastern Europe has now manifested as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine; the Balkan Peninsula is the only region that has gotten a little quieter. Today, the remaining primary hotspots of international conflict are all related to China, namely the Korean Peninsula, the Diaoyu Islands, the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and China and India, and India’s tension with Pakistan.