Indo-PacificTaiwan should destroy chip infrastructure if China invades: paper
U.S. scholars propose deterrence strategy to make island 'unwantable'
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen oversees a military drill in Penghu. China's People's Liberation Army is said to envision a Taiwan takeover in 14 hours, far less than the 24 hours that the U.S. and Japan would need to respond. (Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via Reuters)
KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia chief desk editor
January 5, 2022 03:08 JST
NEW YORK -- In the most-downloaded paper published by the U.S. Army War College in 2021, two American scholars propose a Taiwan deterrence strategy to render the island so "unwantable" that it would make no logical sense for China to seize it by force.