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Connor Pfeiffer is executive director of the Forum for American Leadership and formerly served as national security advisor to a Republican member of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Dispelling Illusions over Taiwan
Xi Jinping says he is preparing China for war, and we should take him at his word.