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Home / China-Taiwan / Losing a Taiwan War? with Lyle Goldstein
China‑Taiwan, Asia, China

November 4, 2025

Losing a Taiwan War? with Lyle Goldstein

On this week’s episode of Security Dilemma, A.J. Manuzzi and John Gay spoke with Lyle Goldstein of Defense Priorities and the Watson Institute at Brown University about his recent paper series “Target Taiwan,” which argues that a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan could be costlier and less winnable for the United States than conventional wisdom assesses.

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