Clash of the Titans

Delegates,

The conflict unfolding in the Taiwan Strait is not merely a military standoff, it is a systemic confrontation taking place across two battlefields: the visible domain of ships and missiles, and the invisible realm of markets, trade, and currency flows.

In the CMO theater, radar locks, intercept tracks, and missile signatures paint a picture of rising tensions and approaching danger. But in the economic theater, market signals, stock fluctuations, and capital flight tell a second story, one of confidence, vulnerability, and strategic leverage.

Both rooms are playing the same game on different boards.

China seeks to unify Taiwan under its authority, not only through military pressure, but through economic coercion, supply chain dominance, and technological capture. The United States aims to maintain military superiority, but also to constrain China financially, technologically, and diplomatically. Taiwan, facing extinction or preservation, must balance its physical defenses at sea and in the air with its economic resilience, technological irreplaceability, and partnerships abroad.

Your actions will not stay confined to your room.

A naval escalation in CMO may trigger a crash in the economy room.
A semiconductor export restriction in the ECOM room may prompt the repositioning of naval forces on the map in CMO.
A spike in oil prices may ground aircraft and throttle fuel expenditure.
A routing shift in commercial cargo may alter reinforcement timelines and logistics capacity.

This is the century’s defining confrontation:
a war fought with warships and with supply chains,
with fighters and with factories,
with missiles and with markets.

Your mission as delegates is not simply to win in your own theater, but to anticipate how your actions will ripple across the other. Each committee holds part of the solution, neither contains it alone. Strategic coordination, deliberate signaling, and cross-room perception will matter as much as raw firepower or market capitalization.

History does not remember the crises that ended in nothing, only those that forced the world to choose a direction.

You stand at such a point.

The Pacific hangs in tense balance.
The old order cracks.
And every decision you make sends a signal to markets, militaries, and nations.