Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“When Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter published America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan in 2005, it was met with polite attention and quiet dismissal by most of the foreign policy establishment, which at that time was focused on destruction and destabilization in the Middle East. Two decades later, his arguments read not as theoretical provocations but as tragic prophecies. The deepening crisis in U.S.-China relations, particularly as it relates to the increasingly volatile question of Taiwan, is unfolding precisely along the lines Carpenter warned about. In an era of bipartisan hawkishness, Carpenter’s sober realism and principled non-interventionism deserve renewed attention.” (06/05/25)