Word: aegises
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Military planning must always be for the worst-case scenario, not for a world where every country acts as expected. We may expect that China would never invade Taiwan, but our expectations are unlikely to give the Taiwanese nearly so much comfort as Aegis radar the next time China conducts...
Relations between China and the U.S. have been uncomfortably strained in the past few months, due in large part to the hard-line tactics of the Bush administration. Given the continuing standoff over a downed spy plane and Bush’s characterization of China as a �...
Colonial guilt might seem like a poor reason for the E.U. to prefer Caribbean bananas to the by-all-accounts superior Latin America bananas grown under Chiquita's and Dole's aegis. But Europe's policy was aimed at a "trade not aid" goal of keeping small family farms afloat...
Taiwan: Win-win winners It was Taiwan's interests that the U.S. spy plane was defending on the mission that led to the Hainan standoff, and tensions between Washington and Beijing inevitably play to Taipei's advantage. While the standoff won't necessarily increase the likelihood of Taiwan's being...
The U.S. is committed to meeting Taiwan's basic defense needs, but it should avoid disrupting the military balance between the island and the mainland. As I understand it from military experts in the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aegis system is not necessarily what Taiwan needs or is even...