President Joe Biden has said that the US would come to Taiwan's defense if China attacked, a break from previous administrations' policy of strategic ambiguity. Were the US to end up in a war with China, the likely cause would be a Chinese military assault on the self-run democratic island of Taiwan, which Beijing has long claimed as Chinese territory and is seen as a challenge to its authoritarian rule. War in the Western Pacific is likely not an immediate danger, according to experts, but it is a possibility.
Now politicians, experts, and even America's military leaders have started to raise the question: Just how prepared is the US if the threats from Beijing become something more serious? While the world should hope a full-scale conflict between US and China can be avoided, relations between the two superpowers continue to deteriorate.
The mobilization required to fight in a global conflict is monumental, and until the fighting starts, it can be impossible to anticipate the scope of resources that are required. In a showdown between the world's two largest powers, neither side is ever going to come to the table fully prepared for war. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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