There is no doubt that the escalation between China and the United States over Taiwan is bad news for the prosperity and security of the world, especially since the gap between the two powers has been widening to the point that they no longer cooperate in areas that were unanimously agreed upon, such as climate change, and the slightest miscalculation by either of them can cause disaster.
This is what the French magazine Le Point sees, which clarified in an article by its author Luc de Barouche that the Chinese missiles that flew over Taiwan on August 4 this year not only reflected Beijing's anger after the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei, but also showed how hostility is exacerbating between Beijing and Washington.
The world, according to the writer, is different from what it was in 1995, when US President Bill Clinton only needed to send two aircraft carriers to quell tension in the Taiwan Strait, a major sea route for global trade.
The article pointed out that the Chinese army at that time was not comparable to the American power, which has changed today.
China has patiently built enough to go to war with America. Today, it has strong naval forces and advanced missile capabilities, and the slightest miscalculation by one of the conflicting parties could spell disaster.
The writer claims that the Chinese leader's goal of containing Taiwan is not very different from the goal of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of containing Ukraine, both of which cannot "coexist with a liberal model next to it that can give subversive ideas to the peoples they rule with an iron fist."
This, according to the author, made the Asian democracies, which fear that Beijing will treat Taiwan in the same way that the Kremlin treats Kyiv, look more than ever for Washington's support.