The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war
La Trobe University Press, $29.99 pb, 256 pp, 9781760640378
The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war by Brendan Taylor
The danger is complacency. Brendan Taylor cautions readers of this timely assessment of the swirling currents of power in Asia – and currents is the right metaphor, given the heavy focus on disputes at sea – not to simply have faith that everything will turn out okay. ‘The risk of major war in Asia is much greater today than most individuals assume,’ Taylor writes. Even among regional leaders and key players, he sees a ‘strange complacency about the prospects for conflict in Asia’, despite knowing just how devastating such a conflict would be.
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