Oriana Skylar Mastro
"China has the most advanced cruise and ballistic program, the largest navy, and one of the strongest air defense umbrellas in the world. Taiwan cannot do this by itself, but the US does not have a credible defence. Our bases in the region are still not resilient and we do not have enough fire power to rain down on advancing forces in the Taiwan Strait."
Oriana Skylar Mastro
"China has the most advanced cruise and ballistic program, the largest navy, and one of the strongest air defense umbrellas in the world. Taiwan cannot do this by itself, but the US does not have a credible defence. Our bases in the region are still not resilient and we do not have enough fire power to rain down on advancing forces in the Taiwan Strait."
Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she works as a strategic planner at INDOPACOM. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016. She has published widely, including in Foreign Affairs, International Security, International Studies Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Survival, and Asian Security. Her book, The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime, (Cornell University Press, 2019), won the 2020 American Political Science Association International Security Section Best Book by an Untenured Faculty Member. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.