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The peril of transactional deterrence: How the US unwittingly shifted Taiwan’s timeline
Washington's shift to a hyper-transactional foreign policy framework has weakened its strategic architecture, making Taiwan a flexible variable in the U.S.-China rivalry and threatening to unravel decades of American deterrence in Asia.
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