Taiwan.

From: Parameters | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Halloran, Richard | Copyright information

Of all the threats to security and US interests in Asia, the confrontation across the Taiwan Strait is surely the most perilous over the long run and has the greatest potential for erupting into a war between the United States and China. As Kurt Campbell and Derek Mitchell of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington wrote in the summer of 2001, "Perhaps nowhere else on the globe is the situation so seemingly intractable and the prospect of a major war involv...

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