This past weekend, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton suggested that a conflict with China over Taiwan could not be discounted. However, as Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz wrote some 200 years ago, “War is the continuation of politics by other means”.
Despite the inappropriate and unnecessary warnings by Mike Pezzullo, near term conflict between America and China, whilst possible is unlikely.
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