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The War China Wins: Looking At a Taiwan Invasion from a Different Lens

The Insider
October 22, 2025

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Episode Notes:

Wargame designers and international relations experts, Jeffrey Michaels and Michael Williams, join Nicole to do a deep dive into their recent article that analyzes their recent Chinese-Taiwanese wargame. The trio discuss the hypothetical scenarios of a war that China plans to win, not necessarily the war the United States expects to fight — including the possibility that Beijing chooses not to invade the island at all.

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