The Chinese regime is paying close attention to the global ramifications of the current Ukraine crisis, and is likely to consider the West’s reactions in assessing future moves against Taiwan, said Grant Newsham, a senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies.
If the Western allies fail to grapple successfully with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and find a way to resolve the crisis, Beijing may use that failure to ratchet up its campaign of psychological warfare against Taiwan, Newsham said.
