The United States and communist China are caught in a dynamic of increasing military escalation that could result in overt conflict, according to security experts.
Despite the United States’ overarching goal of deterring military conflict, Chinese communist authorities’ dedication to reaching military parity with the United States and their belief that the United States is in terminal decline could pressure both sides into a standoff, according to Sean Monaghan, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Monaghan said that the increasing commitment of both sides to arming against the other could spark a new conflict over the future of democratic Taiwan, which China’s communist regime claims as its own….