The Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996 heightened the risk of military conflict between the US and China

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The Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996 heightened the risk of military conflict between the US and China

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"Present and former officials now say they were far more worried than was known at the time, as Christopher writes in a forthcoming collection of essays, that "a simple miscalculation or misstep could lead to unintended war.""
"Beijing and Washington had two weeks of extraordinary tension and uncertainty still ahead of them, with undercurrents of nuclear menace."

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The 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis prompted US military support for Taiwan.