On October 8, 2020, Global China Hub nonresident senior fellow John K. Culver joined Politico China Watcher for a discussion on US thinking on Taiwan.
The Taiwan conflict could happen “even four or five years out,” Culver says. “You’ve got these culminating trends in the United States, Taiwan and China, especially the rapid maturity of their military modernization … in the event of crisis, you could have a dynamic that compels them toward harder action.”