In a conflict between Beijing and Taiwan, Europe would be forced to choose between the democratic and the communist sides, but this is not yet fully understood in European countries, said a French expert, who encouraged more transatlantic discussions between high-level officials and thinks tanks. “That [Taiwan crisis] is something new for some Europeans to understand that a crisis … even a conflict could happen between China, Taiwan, and maybe with U.S. involvement,” said Dr. Nicolas Regaud, Special Representative to the Indo-Pacific of the Director General for International relations and Strategy at the French Ministry of Armed Forces. European countries could not watch and do nothing if the communist regime were to attack democratic Taiwan, he said in an online webinar entitled “Outweighing the CCP [Chinese Communist Party]: The Role of European Allies in U.S.-China Strategic Competition,” held by the Project 2049 Institute on May 5. “There is no way European, …