My key #MSC2023 moment.
Asked by @ischinger to reassure audience military escalation over Taiwan not imminent Wang Yi chose to reassure audience that Taiwan is part of 🇨🇳territory while launching diatribe against Taiwan „separatists“.
No word on preference for peace.
Asked by @ischinger to reassure audience military escalation over Taiwan not imminent Wang Yi chose to reassure audience that Taiwan is part of 🇨🇳territory while launching diatribe against Taiwan „separatists“.
No word on preference for peace.
Beijing‘s aggressive stance will likely be central topic of MSCs in years to come. All the more essential for Taiwan, US, Europe & allies to urgently invest in effective deterrence to try to prevent Beijing from using force to change status quo.
This for me was also lesson from excellent simulation exercise orchestrated by @DAlperovitch @SilveradoPolicy.
Conclusion from this for me is of course not that conflict is imminent but that tensions will be with us in years to come and that Europeans (mostly focused on Russia’s war right now) need to give more attention to this including need for deterrence (and of course guardrails).
Bonnie Glaser makes important point here on centrality of domestic audience. Wang Yi had a choice which exact words to use. That he chose to phrase it exactly this way (rather than including other language of preference for peaceful resolution) I did find noteworthy.
https://twitter.com/bonnieglaser/status/1627423106087403521
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