Talking Up War Over Taiwan Flouts Reason, Fact, Judgment And Australia’s National Interest – Analysis

By Gareth Evans*

It is never wise, in foreign affairs and defence policymaking, for emotion to trump reason, for politics to trump objectivity, or for sensitive judgment calls on major national interest issues to be made before they have to be. Talking up, as so many now are, the prospect of war with China — with Taiwan as...