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Old 04-09-2021, 01:29 PM
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Exclamation China Issues New Threats to Taiwan: ‘The Island’s Military Won’t Stand a Chance’

China Issues New Threats to Taiwan: ‘The Island’s Military Won’t Stand a Chance’
By: Paul D. Shinkman, Sr. Writer, National Security & USNews 04-09-21, at 11:14 a.m.
Re: https://www.usnews.com/news/world-re...stand-a-chance

New provocative language from Beijing comes amid heightened tensions in the region and new fears from the U.S. military about China’s willingness to invade the island nation.

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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy aircraft carrier Liaoning participates in a naval parade in the sea near Qingdao in eastern China, April 23, 2019. China says it is holding naval drills involving the battlegroup of the aircraft carrier Liaoning in waters near Taiwan.(MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/POOL/AP-FILE)

BEIJING ON FRIDAY issued new threats against Taiwan at a time of near unprecedented tensions around the island nation, saying its military "won't stand a chance" if China chose to invade.

The threat comes amid a series of provocative actions and warnings in recent days by the Chinese military – the People's Liberation Army or PLA – including a series of air and naval incursions into territory that Taiwan claims as its own. Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province of mainland China, not a sovereign nation.

"The PLA exercises are not only warnings, but also show real capabilities and pragmatically practicing reunifying the island, if it comes to that," an unnamed told the Chinese state news service Global Times in a fiery article it published Friday morning. It added that the people of Taiwan are "dashing into a war that they cannot win."

China has expressed particular outrage at a series of computerized wargames that Taiwan is conducting this week to simulate its response to a potential Chinese invasion.

The Global Times is not considered a direct mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party but is aligned with its views.

The U.S., which has increasingly backed Taiwan's autonomy in recent months amid the threat posed by China's perceived expansionism, has escalated its response in recent days, including Navy patrols by the USS John McCain in international waters known as "freedom of navigation operations" to contest Beijing's claims over regional waters.

The Pentagon was careful this week not to tie the operations directly to Chinese behavior.

"We don't conduct Freedom of Navigation Operations around the world to send – to respond to some specific event or the specific action of another country," spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday when asked about the ship's presence. "We conduct Freedom of Navigation Operations around the world to send a message about how strongly we believe in international law and in the freedom that all nations have to sail, operate and fly in accordance with that international law. Freedom of the seas doesn't just exist for fish and icebergs and that's the purpose of conducting these operations, to reinforce that notion."

However American military officials have in recent weeks raised increased warnings about the threat China poses to Taiwan, publicly expressing fears that Beijing may move to reunite the island nation with the mainland by force in the near future.

Navy Adm. Phil Davidson, who at the time was commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, warned during his final testimony to Congress before retiring that he believes China may invade Taiwan within six years. Adm. Mike Gilday, the Navy's top officer, said during a Wednesday event organized by the Center for a New American Security, "I don't think we should ignore that possibility."

Deterring and containing China has become one of the thorniest foreign policy issues President Joe Biden faces amid a sharp rise in tensions between the two global powers over the last year. Analysts remain concerned that China increasingly believes the U.S. is not willing to enter a war over Taiwan's autonomy.

State Department spokesman Ned Price this week expressed "great concern" about what he considers China's systematic efforts to intimidate its neighbors, including Taiwan.

"The United States maintains the capacity to resist any resort to force or any other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan," he said.

About this writer: Paul Shinkman is a national security correspondent. He joined U.S. News & World Report in 2012
Tags: China, Taiwan, Asia, military, politics, world, world news

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Personal note: We need a reply by NATO and the US regarding Taiwan! Are we ready and do we have ship's in the area and is Taiwan ready for such an attack? Everybody is whistling Dixie but are we ready to protect those we say we will? You got to be in position to counter such an attack - rather than just talk about it. Both China and Russia are making their moves - what is the NATO and the US doing about it? Are we backing up our allies with words only - or are we in a position to counter any such movements or what?
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Talking big doesn't necessarily mean much if you're not countering such a challenge to make them think twice before attacking? Just my thoughts - I don't know what you have in the field to counter - an air attack or from the sea - is NATO making any moves? These folks have to know - or we loose face and international favor for backing our alias's!
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