Stanford Looks at Communist China, Then and Now

Commentary Stanford University in Palo Alto recently held an online seminar on the current situation in China. Matt Pottinger, a Mandarin-fluent former advisor to President Donald Trump, led an hour-and-a-half-long discussion of a book titled “The Boiling Moat”—a collection of essays on what to do about communist China’s blockades and possible invasion of Taiwan. Mr. Pottinger asked the critical question of what urgent steps would be credible. What military demonstrations of power by Taiwan and its allies—Japan, the United States, Australia, or NATO—would deter the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from military actions to intimidate or to defeat Taiwan’s defenses?...