China’s eastern pivot and the Taiwan Strait’s commercial resilience

China's Coast Guard has spent the summer of 2026 quietly redrawing the map of maritime pressure around Taiwan.

China’s Coast Guard has spent the summer of 2026 quietly redrawing the map of maritime pressure around Taiwan not by tightening its grip on the Strait, but by opening a second front along the island’s Pacific coast.

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