[Todd G. Buchholz] Taiwan needs new deterrence

As the US-Iran war threatens to ignite a worldwide energy crisis, another hotspot may come to a boil: Taiwan. During a recent visit to Taipei, I didn’t need to read Mandarin to spot the lead news story every day: Another step in China’s campaign to intimidate the island. What once would have been deemed a crisis — People’s Liberation Army aircraft crossing the Taiwan Strait’s median line, PLA vessels and surveillance balloons pressing closer, or Chinese authorities interrogating commercial ship

By The Korea Herald