Taiwan’s future precarious—with or without US-China conflict

Taiwan has often compared itself to being a “shrimp between two whales.” That expression has never been more apt than today with the US and China – which considers Taiwan to be part of its territory – locked in a standoff over the future of the island.At an event I attended some years ago, a Chinese scholar remarked when the issue of the US-China rivalry came up that they believed there was an