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Last month, National Defense University professor Donald Stoker wrote a thought-provoking article for Real Clear Defense that examined China’s actions in the Korean and Vietnam Wars and concluded that it will be “exceedingly difficult to deter China in regard to Taiwan,” and that a successful American strategy of deterrence “requires strength, capability, credibility, and will.” A grand strategy of deterrence affects the mind of the enemy in this case, the mind of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the minds of Xi’s top advisers. The United States and its allies, Stoker writes, must “produce overwhelming doubt in the minds of China’s leaders” that they can take control of Taiwan “at an acceptable cost.”
China said it successfully completed three days of military drills around Taiwan on Monday, including simulated strikes on the island with fighter jets launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time/
Operations Specialist 3rd Class Brianna Vasquez-Ragan, from Phoenix, monitors surface contacts from the combat information center aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold as the ship transits the Taiwan Strait conducting routine underway operations, July 28, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Deanna C. Gonzales) By Philip Lenczycki Daily Caller News| USSA News