In an article by Fox News entitled “Chinese aggression toward Taiwan testing US resolve in wake of Afghanistan withdrawal, experts say,” IWP President Dr. James Anderson, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, commented on this Chinese aggression.
Among other things, he noted that, “They periodically ratchet up the pressure to pressure Taiwan, to pressure the United States and to probe weaknesses, to test our resolve… And probably the proximate cause of the most recent escalation and probing has to do with our sloppy and unfortunate disaster with respect to the withdrawal from Afghanistan.”