Tension with China is at its worst in four decades, says Taiwan’s defence minister, pushing for more military spending. In the past week, there’s been a spurt in the number of Chinese military planes penetrating Taiwan’s air defence identification zone. A host of factors may have contributed to China’s coercion, says J. Michael Cole, a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, DC. China is using military assertiveness as a demonstration that it will not be deterred, not be dictated to and that it also has the ability to set the tone within the region, Cole told StratNews Global. So what level of deterrence needs to be put in place? Listen in for more.
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