

Lyle Goldstein is the director of Asia engagement at the think tank Defense Priorities in Washington, a visiting professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the author of “Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry.”
Gunfire broke out in the Taiwan Strait two weeks ago as Taiwanese defense forces shot down a Chinese drone near the tiny island of Kinmen.