Pelosi in Taiwan

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

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Nancy Pelosi made a visit to Taiwan this week. It wasn't exactly a surprise—we all knew it was happening—but it wasn't announced, and it wasn't quite official either. Beijing has gone a little bit crazy. There are military exercises taking place off the coast of Taiwan in response. There are threats of war. There was even talk of shooting down Pelosi's plane.

To talk it all through, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Sophia Yan, Beijing correspondent for the Telegraph; Julian Ku, professor of law at Hofstra University; and Zack Cooper of the Alliance for Protecting Democracy at the German Marshall Fund. They talked about why Pelosi went, about how Beijing reacted, and whether it's all bluster or whether this is the real deal. They also talked about what we can expect to happen over the next few months and how we can deescalate the situation over the next few days.

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1:08.6	I think the worry that we should have in the Taiwan Strait is really about China feeling
1:14.1	backed into a corner which is not to say that China has not been wrong in the situation.
1:19.1	In fact, I think much of the erosion of the status quo is China's own fault but I think
1:23.8	to understand what would trigger China to cause a major crisis or a war, we have to understand
1:29.4	how they look at this and for my view Pelosi's visit was really more about rhetoric than
1:35.1	anything else and therefore I don't think it helps Taiwan very much but I do think it
1:39.3	introduced a bit more risk into the cross-strait dynamic.
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