5. Taiwan
The threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan remains a very real and present danger. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never wavered in its mission to “reunify” the island with the mainland. In his most recent New Year’s address, President Xi Jinping underscored this ambition, calling the reunification an “unstoppable trend of the times.” In the event of a global breakdown in order, many analysts believe China would move swiftly to seize Taiwan, making the island a certain flashpoint for superpower intervention.
