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Over at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations . . .
. . . Yours truly maintains that the odds of a Chinese attack on Taiwan are mounting.
https://spectator.clingendael.org/en/publication/chinese-military-attack-taiwan-inevitable
The Naval Diplomat 