What will America do if China decides to use force against Taiwan? And how would Australia respond? These are perhaps the gravest questions now confronting leaders in Washington and Canberra, and they are far from hypothetical.
The fragile fudge that has kept the peace over Taiwan for the past 50 years has been strained almost to breaking point as US-China relations have darkened into a new cold war.
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Hugh White is the author of The China Choice and How To Defend Australia, and the Quarterly Essays Power Shift, Without America and Sleepwalk to War. He is emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU.
