Franz-Stefan Gady is a research fellow focused on future conflict and the future of war at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Meia Nouwens is a senior fellow for Chinese defense policy and military modernization at IISS.
Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is triggering a renaissance in European defense spending. But European policymakers would now do well to consider a geographically more distant crisis hot spot in their rearmament plans: Taiwan.