, Columnist
If China Invaded Taiwan, What Would India Do?
The New Delhi government fears its expansionist neighbor but is deeply wary about getting in the middle of a brawl with Beijing.
(This is the fourth in a series of dispatches from partner nations the US will depend on in its rivalry, and potential war, with China. Read part one here; part two, on Japan, here; part three, on Australia, here; and part five, on Europe, here.)
The US, Australia and Japan would be the core of any alliance to defend Taiwan from an attack by China. But the Indo-Pacific is enormous, so the success of this coalition of the willing might hinge on what support it could scrounge up from an axis of the ambivalent — a group of strategically situated, and strategically hesitant, countries across the region.