Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China

In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Eyck Freymann, a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and author of the new book, Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China. Eyck unpacks Beijing’s real goals vis-à-vis Taiwan, how Taiwan fits into the Party’s domestic and international ambitions, and how the United States and its allies can manage the bedeviling challenge of gray zone coercion while also deterring high-end conflict.

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Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China is an episode from Pekingology by Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 46:06 long.

This episode was published on Apr 16, 2026.

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