Commentary
The period from December 2022 to the present date has seen unprecedented Chinese Communist Party (CCP) challenges to the sovereignty of Taiwan. This should be called the Fourth Taiwan Straits Crisis, keeping with the naming convention of two different crisis periods of the 1950s and one during the 1990s.
This period of tension is far more concerning. In the previous crisis, China didn’t have long-range hypersonic missiles that could target moving surface vessels such as American aircraft carriers. Nor did the Chinese regime face the largest mass protests ever across China as in the “Blank Sheet Rebellion,” causing immense concern that simultaneous civil unrest could cause instability within China….