The People’s Liberation Army is now in the middle of a reform program to transform itself into a genuine blue water navy and an air force capable of military posturing and combat above and on the high seas.
The stated goal is to mount a swift takeover of Taiwan before the US can amass its plans and vessels to intervene.
A report published by the Institute for National Defense and Security Research has urged the Taiwanese military to formulate contingency plans centered around its “asymmetric warfare” tactics and ramp up its defense of key infrastructure and military structures, “before everything is too late.”
Since the PLA reforms and transition would take time to bear fruit, the next three to five years are Taiwan’s last opportune time to prioritize a military build-up and make arms deals from and defense cooperation pacts with de facto allies like Japan and the US.
The report contains a list of the PLA’s tactical assets that can pose the gravest threats to the island.
Excluding the Y-8 and Y-9 transportation planes that have participated in long-range exercises near Taiwan since 2015, the PLA Air Force has also flown sorties near Taiwan’s eastern airspace at least 12 times in the past 12 months.
Some of these aerial circumnavigations also involved the modernized H-6K bomber, which is capable of piercing through the Second Island Chain to menace the US territory of Guam.
The PLA Navy’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was spotted this summer conducting anti-submarine and anti-air missions in massive war games in both the East and South China seas.
Ongoing Chinese efforts to extend the range of its cruise and ballistic missiles, and to improve its satellite monitoring and guidance systems, could also threaten Japan and US forces stationed on the outlying islands of Japan as well as Guam, hampering the US’s first response to any emergency in the Taiwan Strait.
The PLA’s display of DF-21D anti-ship missiles, DF-26C ballistic missiles and CJ-10 cruise missiles in its blue-water naval exercises, as well as their extensive deployment in Fujian province across Taiwan, are all indicative of the force’s ability to launch medium to long-range strikes.
The Type 095 nuclear assault submarines, Type 096 ballistic missile submarines and China’s indigenous fifth-generation fighter the J-20 all represent a big boost to the PLA’s anti-access/area denial capabilities.
Taiwan doesn’t have to win a war against China. They just have to make it so China cannot win a war with Taiwan. Whether now or in the future, China doesn’t have a viable option to invade Taiwan. You can read Ian Easton’s The Chinese Invasion Threat to see the anallysis of a Chinese Invasion, and how they don’t have the capability to perform the amphibious landings required for the invasion
Taiwan doesn’t have to win a war against China. They just have to make it so China cannot win a war with Taiwan. Whether now or in the future, China doesn’t have a viable option to invade Taiwan. You can read Ian Easton’s The Chinese Invasion Threat to see the anallysis of a Chinese Invasion, and how they don’t have the capability to perform the amphibious landings required for the invasion
Flora de los Sinensis I know China’s narrative. But everyone except for Chinese know that Taiwan and China are separate countries, they just have to agree with China on the surface in order to do business with China.
Flora de los Sinensis I know China’s narrative. But everyone except for Chinese know that Taiwan and China are separate countries, they just have to agree with China on the surface in order to do business with China.
[They] are cool in my book. They make for the of specimens that keeps us well entertained. Dummies.
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[They] are cool in my book. They make for the of specimens that keeps us well entertained. Dummies.
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Taiwan is blood thicker than water to all Chinese. China therefore will not use military force to enforce reunification unless of the last resort or, unless the Gweilao exploits the stupidities of Tasi brood as a containment tool in which case nothing is out of the realms of possibility.
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Taiwan is blood thicker than water to all Chinese. China therefore will not use military force to enforce reunification unless of the last resort or, unless the Gweilao exploits the stupidities of Tasi brood as a containment tool in which case nothing is out of the realms of possibility.
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Winston Medved
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Sorry Winston, they (Taiwanese) are sitting on prime [Chinese real estate] — prime Chinese real estate just as that of the Johnson reefs. Catching my drift here, Winston? Therefore the both of you are more than welcomed to move elsewhere if you chooses to do so. It’s not a matter of if you, or if they, wish to integrate, it’s a matter of whether the both of you feel you belong with us and if not, you are more than welcomed to leave. We won’t stop you.
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Winston Medved
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Sorry Winston, they (Taiwanese) are sitting on prime [Chinese real estate] — prime Chinese real estate just as that of the Johnson reefs. Catching my drift here, Winston? Therefore the both of you are more than welcomed to move elsewhere if you chooses to do so. It’s not a matter of if you, or if they, wish to integrate, it’s a matter of whether the both of you feel you belong with us and if not, you are more than welcomed to leave. We won’t stop you.
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Samantha Cui
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Sam, have you any idea how many of the Island’s motor vehicles are registered as “Taiwan Provine, China or 中囯台灣省” though 中國 does not imply PRC? I postulate that the percentage, at a glance, is at least 50%. Now why is that?
In the same token, have you any idea where your name, “Cui” derive from? NO! It was NOT as a result bad luck or as a result an ACCIDENT your elder’s part. It was as a result of “inheritance” — inheritance in relations to that of the CHINESE CIVILIZATION…
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Samantha Cui
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Sam, have you any idea how many of the Island’s motor vehicles are registered as “Taiwan Provine, China or 中囯台灣省” though 中國 does not imply PRC? I postulate that the percentage, at a glance, is at least 50%. Now why is that?
In the same token, have you any idea where your name, “Cui” derive from? NO! It was NOT as a result bad luck or as a result an ACCIDENT your elder’s part. It was as a result of “inheritance” — inheritance in relations to that of the CHINESE CIVILIZATION…
Rather than showing off assets, Taiwanese should seek a Peace Treaty to bring Money, Talents and People in while bringing local Products out as in the slogan of newly elected Kaoshiung mayor.
Rather than showing off assets, Taiwanese should seek a Peace Treaty to bring Money, Talents and People in while bringing local Products out as in the slogan of newly elected Kaoshiung mayor.
Me think the US industrial-military complex paid AT to write this article.
Me think the US industrial-military complex paid AT to write this article.
The same question can be asked: why does not Israel be realistic and be absorbed into the Arab world? Or the other way around: why does not the Palestinians accept being part of Israel? So many similar questions: Ukraine – Russia, Kurds – Iraq…
The same question can be asked: why does not Israel be realistic and be absorbed into the Arab world? Or the other way around: why does not the Palestinians accept being part of Israel? So many similar questions: Ukraine – Russia, Kurds – Iraq…
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Hi, Winston,
Do you, Mr. Winston, know that the Americans are the leader in fables and fairytales? I.e., fables as in Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter?
And somthing something Thrones?
Man! How the greater American public live for these kinds of a marlarkey.
In adition, had I told any of you here before, ever, how my three and four year old Grandkids and their age group are so totally sold on the idea of ”Frozen”, of Princess this and that, and get this, of a Princess Kenyatta Tiana?
Imagine that eh?
How so so very imaginative these Americans.
Also, had you watched the newest Bob Lazer’s Area 51 S-5 ET UFO experience, yet? Well, you better if you’re so into the fables they feed you in the US.
Better still, remember “One Step For Man And A Big Leap For Mankind? All of it by tge powers of a xhorse drawn carriage…
Errr.. Sorry, I meant to say on the back of a naked oxen?
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