Asia | Horns of a dilemma
If China invaded Taiwan, who would enter the war?
Japan and the Philippines would struggle to stay out. But what about the rest?
|Singapore|3 min read
“THE ELEPHANT in the room”, acknowledged Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, speaking to an audience of defence bigwigs at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 30th, “is the day China decides a big [military] operation.” Would France intervene on day one of such a war, he mused? “I would be very cautious today.”
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