Reassessing Beijing’s Taiwan Redlines: Political Triggers, Not Force Posture, Drive Escalation
The source argues that PRC escalation in the Taiwan Strait has historically been driven primarily by perceived threats to political narratives and status-quo objectives rather than by the mere presence of U.S. military power. It concludes that deterrence and crisis management should account for political signaling risks while preserving credible defensive options, though the contemporary section is truncated due to extraction errors.