This may surprise many given our boy Colby had been a principal advocate for a robust and muscular “Strategy of Denial” to counter China. But perhaps our Under Secretary of War for Policy actually is a realist and not, against all prior evidence, a low-watt Washington nepo baby (see here).
In his confirmation hearings, young Colby did display surprising flashes of realism declaring, “Taiwan is very important to the United States, but… it’s not an existential interest.”
