"To avoid a future crisis with China over arms sales, the United States should dispense with the "arms package" approach to arms sales to Taiwan and instead conduct the sales in a steady stream of small increments. Nobel-prize winning strategist Thomas Schelling coined the term "salami tactics" to describe this approach, a reference to slicing off an objective in a series of gradual steps rather than all at once."

"Conquest is a regular feature of war. But it is generally accepted that globalization and growing economic interconnectedness has stitched the world together in such a way that fighting each other for land is no longer pragmatic. Then in 2014, Russia stunned the world by annexing Crimea...."