Opinion: To Defend Taiwan, America Needs To Upgrade Its Defense-Industrial Base

The ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and the frenzied attempts of the United States and its European partners to quell conflicts in those regions have helped expose an unsettling reality: China now has a closing window of opportunity to take Taiwan by force. 

Taiwan's recent presidential election saw the island’s anti-reunification party, the Democratic Peoples’ Party, retain power, beating out the two candidates that Beijing would likely have preferred—and did so despite China’s efforts to interfere in the contest. The result may signal to Beijing that peaceful reunification is a distant possibility that will only grow increasingly unlikely. 

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