Symposium: What Would U.S. Intervention in Ukraine Really Look Like, January, 24, 2022

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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.

By Stephen Wertheim

Published on Jan 24, 2022

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Stephen Wertheim

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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