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Symposium: What Would U.S. Intervention in Ukraine Really Look Like, January, 24, 2022
If the United States declined to go to war over Ukraine, a country it has no formal obligation to defend, this should hardly surprise Chinese leaders or change their decisions toward Taiwan.
About the Author
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Christopher S. Chivvis, Stephen Wertheim, Liana Schmitter-Emerson
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