Reuters Simon Leitch, National Interest: The Coming Blockade of Taiwan by China?
Beijing could use a blockade to slowly strangle Taiwan into submission while avoiding or overcoming any realistic American military response.
Since Taiwan’s democratisation over thirty years ago, the world has seen fit to promote a so-called “status quo” in which Taiwan’s friends pretend it isn’t a real country, while Taiwan pretends its problems will disappear, if given enough time. In this fantasy of failed strategy, China was meant to become peaceful, satisfied with wealth, amenable to Taiwan’s continued independence, and not at all a belligerent bully biding its time to wage a war Taiwan cannot win.
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WNU Editor: I have been hearing this type of talk from China for the past two years, and it is very dangerous.
The U.S. and its allies are not going to respect this blockade, and they will ignore it.
This will force China to confront these blockade breaking vessels, where they will ram or sink these blockade-breaking ships.This will also apply to planes violating the embargo.
Sinking U.S. and/or allied ships or shooting down planes is going to result in a U.S. and allied military response. And by doing so we will then be on the precipice of a major Asian war.
Unfortunately, the major sea ports for Taiwan are not on its east coast.
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