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Is China Preparing a Ukraine-Style Plan for Taiwan?
Danger zone.
Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/AFP/Getty Images
China is drawing lessons from the Trump administration’s still unfinished “peace plan” for Russia and Ukraine, watching to see how far Washington will go to secure an agreement, and whether that means concessions to Moscow.
President Xi Jinping is using the opportunity to sharpen the lines around his long-declared objective: Unification with Taiwan. This leaves the self-governed island in a dangerous place, as Washington’s signaling grows fuzzier and Xi’s intentions more explicit.