Newsweek: China Wants to Take Taiwan 'Without a Fight,' Says Defense Report
China is continuing an expansive military buildup as part of a multifaceted campaign to frighten Taiwan into submission and capture the island without firing a single shot.
That was the assessment Taiwan provided on Tuesday in publishing its 2021 National Defense Report, a biennial government document that has been tracking the shifting power balance across the Taiwan Strait for the last three decades.
In a report that echoed many of the observations and concerns raised in Japan's own defense white paper in July, Taiwan described the People's Republic of China (PRC) as having ambitions that reach far beyond the so-called first island chain, the frontline of the American alliance system and its maritime deterrent.
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3 comments:
The idea that we need to equip one chinese province to the same degree as all the rest combined for some kind of all out war is baffling. There isn't enough shipbuilding capacity to win that war conventionally. Just more pork for K street.
I'm a little surprised they would say this!
Taiwan: since months we are in the most number of various schemes. This doesn't help to understate the real situation.
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