ORIANA SKYLAR MASTRO is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, has warned that on-and-off Chinese military exercises around Taiwan are not drills, but “rehearsals” for a potential invasion and that China is on “a dangerous course.”

The DPP government should not give up on the single energy source China would hesitate to target in a conflict.

The prescribed downgrading of American commitments in Europe and the Middle East is a recipe for global instability.

SINGAPORE: Foreign investors could once barely imagine that China would invade neighbouring Taiwan, but with Donald Trump as president of the US, many view it as a tail-risk scenario they must prepare for,