Reuters: Chinese fighter jets buzz Taiwan for a second day as tensions rise
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Chinese fighter jets approached Taiwan on Thursday for a second day in a row, the island’s defence ministry said, urging China to stop “destroying regional peace” in a further ratcheting up of tension across the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has held numerous military exercises up and down its coast and near the island in recent weeks.
The defence ministry said Su-30 fighters and Y-8 transport aircrafts were among the Chinese aircraft that entered Taiwan’s air identification zone to its southwest on Thursday morning.
“The Defence Ministry once again urged the Chinese Communist Party must not to repeatedly destroy regional peace and stability,” it said, adding that the action has triggered antipathy among the people of Taiwan.
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What does Taiwan plan to do about this? Hint: any kind of relations on America as any part of their defense plans isn't going to be a good idea. This was a bad idea even before the rise of BLM and ANTIFA to positions of dominance in the US government. To make matters worse the potential ascendancy of Joe Biden to POTUS makes any such reliance on America even more problematic. After all the Bidens sold us and Ukraine for a 50K a month job for Hunter and Biden ties to China are well documented. Surely Taiwan knows they'd be sold out as well.
Maybe they think Trump is going to win. Even so in a war with Taiwan the first thing China and their allies will do is blockade America. Nothing or no one will be able to enter or leave America without their approval. Even, if this doesn't haopen, America is becoming virulently anti war and I don't see many of us wanting to risk our lives in a likely unwinnable war to defend Taiwan.
What can Taiwan do? I've suggested these steps before. 1.) Develop a robust nuclear weapons deterrent. As a technologically advanced society they should be able to do this fairly quickly. Once they have a nuclear deterrent capable of striking anywhere in China, this should lessen Chinese bravado. 2.) Build up conventional forces to the point that the inevitable Chinese victory would be so pyric that they would consider the costs to be to great for them to undertake the invasion. Reliance on America would be unwise here. 3.) Find a product or service that China needs. Find a way to offer it to them at a price abd quality that no one else can match. For China to go to war, means losing access to this needed product or service. In this situation, China would not want to go to war.
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