The correct U.S. policy is strategic ambiguity, maintaining a substantive commitment to defending Taiwan while avoiding a public, rhetorical one

The complex and evolving relationship between the United States and China, encompassing diplomatic, military, economic, and technological dimensions, including tensions over Taiwan, competition in the Indo-Pacific, AI development, and broader questions of global power and deterrence.

Study and practice of how sovereign states, international institutions, and non-state actors interact across borders. Encompasses diplomacy, negotiation, alliances, and conflict — the foundational domain through which global order is constructed, contested, and maintained.