Missiles are “really the starting point for any type of military coercion campaign that China would use against Taiwan,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, a research group in Washington. “For the Chinese, I think, having an overwhelming number of missiles is also intended as a political signal—to Taiwan that there’s no point in fighting back, to the United States that you can’t intervene.”
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