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“The issue is, can the department execute this strategy and really do it in time?” said Jim Mitre, he director of the international security and defense policy program at the RAND Corporation. "In particular can it do so on a timeline that's sufficient to deter war with China, not just in some far-off future, but in the next few years?”
But the foreign minister said Taiwan is not expecting the world to save it from a Chinese invasion that seems likely. More than ever, Taiwan has the will to…