In speech marking island’s National Day, President Tsai Ing-wen also called for dialogue with China.
President Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday promised to strengthen Taiwan’s defences and work more closely with regional partners on security as she called for ‘meaningful dialogue’ with China, which claims the island as its own.
In a speech to mark Taiwan’s National Day, Tsai said the government would continue to modernise the island’s defence capabilities and enhance its capacity for asymmetric warfare to “deal with military expansion and provocation from the other side of the Taiwan Strait”. Asymmetric warfare is designed to make any Chinese attack difficult and costly, for example with smart mines and portable missiles.
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WNU Editor: China is providing Taiwan with more than enough reasons to increase its military .... Chinese warplane enters Taiwan’s ADIZ on National Day (Taiwan News).
2 comments:
The question is, what's the attraction of Taiwan to xi other than some ego whatever?
Ships and planes out of Taiwan can intercept Chinese ship breaking out to deep blue water.
Even artillery could hit Chinese ships and subs if there was a SOSUS net or drones.
Taiwan means to China what control of Britain would have meant for Germany in the Battle for the Atlantic. Germany would have at least contested the Eastern half the the Atlantic for the next 3 to 5 years or have dominated.
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