Taiwan’s defense chief said on Tuesday that there are no signs mainland China is preparing for a war against Taiwan. The statement comes after frequent Chinese military drills and flights near the island, some that were sparked by a visit to Taiwan from a high-level US official.
“The Chinese communists have continued their acts of provocation against Taiwan, but there are currently no signs showing it is ready to launch a full-scale war,” Defense Minister Yen De-fa told Taiwan’s parliament.
One sign of an imminent attack from the mainland would be if China started massing troops on its eastern border with Taiwan, but Yen said that is not happening.
Tensions have been high in the region due to increased military activity from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei. Last week, China sent People’s Liberation Army aircraft across the sensitive median line, an informal dividing line in the Taiwan Strait that China usually avoids.
Last week, in response the PLA flights, Yen said Taiwan’s military has the right to “self-defense” and a “counter-attack” in the face of “high-frequency harassment and threats from the enemy’s warships and warplanes.”
The PLA aircraft incursions were sparked by a visit to Taiwan from US Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach, the second high-level US official to visit the island in recent months. US Health Secretary Alex Azar visited Taipei in August, making him the highest-level US official to travel to Taiwan since Washington broke formal relations with Taipei in 1979.
China does not want to make war against Taiwan, China wants to normalize relations and coexist with Taiwan, it is the US that is creating all the problems these days.
Correct. China has no desire or capability to invade its largest trading partner. This is all American warmongering.
The US is China’s largest trading partner.
The only sign that China is about to invade Taiwan will happen in the USA. When China covertly releases all the various cousins of SARS-2 that are currently stored in its Wuhan Lab freezers at sites throughout the USA, and sends the US virus panic beyond 11, you will know they are about to move.
The only sign that China is about to invade Taiwan will happen in the USA. When China covertly releases all the various cousins of SARS-2 that are currently stored in its Wuhan Lab freezers at sites throughout the USA, and sends the US virus panic beyond 11, you will know they are about to move.
…..or stored at Fort Maryland in the US which had claimed patent on SARS-2 from which Covid 19’was later extracted. Trumps medical adviser Dr Fauci had worked both in Wuhan and Fort Maryland before but was later recalled by Obama, who found the project too dangerous. Fauci resumed working in the Wuhan labs after Trump came to power. There is more to all this than what we know.
American dangerous provocations right at the doorstep of mainland China could possibly start off war by accident but not deliberately or intentionally.
U S should stop its war games in the eastern Pacific.