"It's reached a very, very high level of tension," said Lyle Goldstein, director of Asia engagement at Defense Priorities, a think tank. Without a breakthrough that eases mistrust, the current "fairly acute crisis" will continue. "War could essentially happen any time," he said.
At the same time, as it tries to intimidate Taiwan, the Chinese military has conducted more than 180 risky intercepts against U.S. surveillance aircraft in the Pacific in the past two years, more than in the previous decade.
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