Defending Taiwan: Think Globally and ‘Look Up’

The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle emerges from its rocket nose cone and prepares to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere, in this illustration. Courtesy of DARPA

Commentary

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said recently that Chinese air force movements toward Taiwan look like “rehearsals” for an invasion. It’s good that U.S. military leadership is finally realizing that Xi Jinping is serious when he says he'll use force, if necessary, to seize Taiwan.