Last month, US President Joe Biden warned that the US would use its military to intervene in any hypothetical confrontation between China and Taiwan. Although, according to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Washington is not looking to establish an "Asian NATO" or incite conflict in the Indo-Pacific area, but rather to preserve calm.
Austin stated in a keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier security conference, that "the stakes are especially stark in the Taiwan S...