China has massive wargames scheduled for the Taiwan Straits at the end of this month.
We just sortied 7 carrier battle groups, reassinged 12,000 troops from S. Korea and are making plans to pull 40,000 out of Germany.
Pieces of a puzzle?
Nope. Pieces on a board - a chess board.
If there's a world economic recession, and global trade crumples, then all bets are off, and not only in Taiwan.