Bonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she focuses on China’s foreign and security policy. Before that, she was a senior adviser for Asia and director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia. Glaser has also served as a consultant for the State Department and the Department of Defense. She has a B.A. from Boston University and a Master's in international relations and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Bonnie Glaser. Illustration by Lauren Crow Q: At this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue you asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, “What are the steps that the United States, our allies, and Taiwan need to take to bolster deterrence so that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait can be preserved?” I want to begin by posing t