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Rightsizing Taiwan’s Strategic Value
Euro-Atlantic policymakers frequently fail to fully grasp the significance of defending the status quo across the Taiwan Strait to their vital national interests, partly due to abstract framing of complex security issues. Yet since World War II security in Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions has been interconnected. Assessing in aggregate Taiwan’s military value to both China and the West, the island’s geo-strategic value in the new cold war is immense. As such, preserving a global balance of power favourable to European interests, if not the survival of the rules based international order, will be inextricably linked to the fate of Taiwan.
1. Western strategic conventional wisdom
2. Chinese strategic perspectives
3. Holistically aggregating Taiwan’s military value
3.1 Grand strategy: Taiwan in national security, defence and China strategies
3.2 Undersea ASW balance
3.3 Strategic nuclear balance
3.4 Sensors, kill chains and ASAT warfare
3.5 Military chips
3.6 Information warfare
Conclusion and recommendations
Acronyms
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