Taiwan as Pacific A2/AD pivot

Seizing Taiwan would not only be a political symbol for Beijing but would immediately convert the island’s airfields, ports, and undersea cables into forward platforms that materially extend China’s anti‑access/area‑denial (A2/AD) reach across the Western Pacific. That shift would compress U.S. and allied operational space, change logistics and basing calculations, and force a durable re‑distribution of naval and missile posture across East and Southeast Asia. — Framing Taiwan explicitly as the decisive A2/AD pivot reframes alliance planning, deterrence investments, and supply‑chain resilience as immediate national‑security priorities rather than abstract diplomatic problems.