The Chinese regime is paying close attention to the global ramifications of the current Ukraine crisis, and is likely to consider the West’s reactions in assessing future moves against Taiwan, said Grant Newsham, a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies. If the Western allies fail to grapple successfully with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and find a way to resolve the crisis, Beijing may use that failure to ratchet up its campaign of psychological warfare against Taiwan, Newsham said. “Psychological warfare, trying to wear down the resistance, is part of the Chinese strategy. And it does have an effect if the Taiwanese don’t think anyone is there to really back them up,” Newsham said. Speaking to EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 26, Newsham said that Beijing has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with …