Food and Soldiers: China’s Strategic Weaknesses

Renowned geostrategist Edward Luttwak pinpoints Beijing's Achilles' heel

Tourists look on as a Chinese military helicopter flies past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest points to Taiwan, in Fujian Province, on Aug. 4, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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On Dec. 7, 2022, Edward Luttwak, a strategy consultant to the U.S. government, gave the keynote speech at Japan’s National Institute of Defense Studies (NIDS) International Symposium on Security Affairs. The speech was entitled “Can China Fight a War?”