China’s huge exercises around Taiwan were a rehearsal, not a signal.
The military expert believes Nancy Pelosi’s visit was more pretext than provocation.
We would like to share some of the commentary by Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on Chinese military and security policy in the Asia-Pacific and rising power challenges to the international order. She is also a center fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and concurrently serves in the United States Air Force Reserve as a strategic planner at US Indo-Pacific Command.
Her commentary originally appeared in The Economist, August 10, 2022.
(https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/08/10/chinas-huge-exercises-around-taiwan-were-a-rehearsal-not-a-signal-says-oriana-skylar-mastro)
