What did China learn from the US-Israeli conflict with Iran? 

And what might China's conclusions then be regarding its own ambitions in Taiwan?

"My fear is that Beijing could look at the situation and conclude that the Americans are simply overwhelmed or incapable of achieving their objectives. I think that would be a very dangerous miscalculation, but that's not one that we can certainly rule out," J. Michael Cole, a Taipei-based senior fellow with the Global Taiwan Institute and a former intelligence officer, told DW.