Sulmaan Khan

Oct 16, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | James Steinberg |Sulmaan Khan

In This Review In This Review The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between By almost universal agreement, the Taiwan Strait has emerged as the most combustible flash point in the world. In recent years, China has dramatically increased the scale and intensity of its military operations around Taiwan, responding to what it claims are provocations by the island’s government and the United States.

Jun 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Sulmaan Khan

In this excellent and timely book, Sulmaan Wasif Khan unpeels the decades of paranoia and misunderstanding that have led to the current Taiwan imbroglio. He re-examines diplomats’ and national leaders’ choices over the last eighty years, describing how a combination of great events, happenstance and ill-informed decisions has made Taiwan the conflict zone it is today. Take the much-ballyhooed trip of Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan in August 2022.

May 19, 2024 | archive.is | Casey Michel |Michael Hirsh |Sulmaan Khan |Gil Barndollar

For nearly a half-century, there was a single factor, a single raison d’être, at the heart of the entire Soviet project. But it wasn’t fanning communist revolution or even spreading Marxist Leninism itself. Rather, it was—as Sergey Radchenko argues in To Run the World, his new, more than 600-page doorstopper on the Soviet leaders’ views during the Cold War—something far simpler, and far more universal: prestige.

May 12, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Sulmaan Khan

Foreign & Public Diplomacy Military United States China North America East Asia Taiwan On the morning of April 5, 2023, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met with then-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in Simi Valley, California. This was a meeting Beijing had warned against in the strictest of terms.

Jan 4, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Sulmaan Khan |Emmanuel Acho |Frank Bruni

Khan recounts Taiwan’s story in a way that shows the importance of understanding the context of the conflict. An expert in Asian geopolitics delves into Taiwan’s past, finding critical clues to the turbulent present. Taiwan is often in the headlines as a possible trigger for a catastrophic war between China and the U.S., but behind the noise is a complex history, according to Khan, a senior academic at Tufts and author of Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy.