Daily Mail: Taiwan practices fighting off a Chinese invasion in huge annual military exercise amid increasing global tensions between West and Beijing
* Five-day drill, which began Monday, is aimed to test how Taiwan would defend itself from a Chinese invasion
* Beijing regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to one day seize it - by force if necessary
* Today's simulation, which involved 8,000 service members, saw Taiwan operating home-made military machinery to repel a foreign invasion in its central city of Taichung
Taiwanese soldiers today fought off simulated coastal assaults from China during their biggest annual live-fire exercises of the year today, as Beijing ramps up military pressure on the island.
The five-day drill, which began on Monday, is aimed at testing how democratic Taiwan's armed forces would repel an invasion from its giant neighbour.
Beijing regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to one day seize it - by force if necessary.
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4 comments:
China doesn’t have to be impressed. They only have to be deterred.
Smells like EMP striker is coming
Imagine if China did attack Russia to get back Old Siberia?
What a fascinating game that would be.
If not now, but soon perhaps?
Crusader,
I've heard of this type of scenario. This would mean Russia and America have a common enemy in China. While I o not think it accurate, it has been proposed that for this reason Russia actively tried to get Trump elected. Essentially the thinking among Russian leadership is in order to properly confront China a strong abd vibrant America would be important and being the most likely candidate to achieve this they backed Trump. As I stated, I do not support that theory. Our elections aren't going to be that important to Russia and pretty much everyone thought HRC was going to win anyway so no reason to get involved.
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