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Emerging Military Technologies and a Future Taiwan Strait Conflict

How will changes in military technology bear on a potential near-future U.S.-China conflict?

By Ankit Panda
May 28, 2021
Emerging Military Technologies and a Future Taiwan Strait Conflict
Credit: AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying

The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) speaks Franz-Stefan Gady, a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, about how emerging technologies might affect a future conflict between the United States and China in the Taiwan Strait. The podcast discusses Gady’s new report for IISS’s 2021 Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment.

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