Amid a escalating crisis in the Taiwan Strait, US-China relations have dangerously increased/worsened/deteriorated. Beijing's/China's/The Chinese government has {conducted/held/launched a series of military/naval/airborne drills near Taiwan, in response to/following/as a result of a visit by/meetings with/talks with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Violence is endemic to the frontier, and the current wars and threats in Ukraine, the center East, and East Asia ought to have shocked nobody. a practical strategy to control violence along the frontier starts by recognizing that point, along with its corollary: that preserving the status quo calls for an unsleeping vigilance in these distant areas