The Korean War and Battle of Lake Changjin hold lessons for Xi Jinping
The map, with Taiwan at its center, is headlined “Pacific Key.” It appeared in 1950 in Time, the once-venerable U.S. magazine, and clearly depicts the East Asia strategy the U.S. was pursuing almost 75 years ago. The map marks Taiwan as “Formosa,” and the island is shaped like a key.
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. And “punishment war games” to describe China’s military exercises around Taiwan on May 23-24, echoing Chinese state news agency Xinhua’s line: “The drills also serve as a strong punishment for the separatist acts of ‘Taiwan independence’ forces.”.
