China could mount full scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025

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Taiwan's President says the threat from China is increasing 'every day' and confirms presence of US military trainers on the island

Updated 0851 GMT (1651 HKT) October 28, 2021

Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) – The leader of Taiwan, the island thrust into the center of rising tensions between the United States and China, said the threat from Beijing is growing "every day," as for the first time she confirmed the presence of American troops on Taiwanese soil.

Speaking with CNN in an exclusive interview Tuesday, President Tsai Ing-wen said Taiwan, which is located fewer than 200 kilometers (124 miles) away from China's southeastern coast, was a "beacon" of democracy that needed to be defended to uphold faith worldwide in democratic values.

"Here is this island of 23 million people trying hard every day to protect ourselves and protect our democracy and making sure that our people have the kind of freedom they deserve," she said.

"If we fail, then that means people that believe in these values would doubt whether these are values that they (should) be fighting for."

Taiwan and mainland China have been separately governed since the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese civil war more than 70 years ago. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy but the mainland's ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to view the island as an inseparable part of its territory -- despite having never controlled it.

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Top U.S. Official in Taiwan Says Washington Committed to Helping Island Defend Itself
Octpber 29, 2021

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14471002

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(Reuters via The Asahi Shimbun) TAIPEI--The top U.S. representative in Taiwan, Sandra Oudkirk, said on Friday that the United States is committed to helping Taiwan defend itself amid heightened tensions between Taipei and Beijing.

Speaking to reporters at her first news conference since assuming her post in July, she described U.S. relations with Taiwan as “rock-solid.”

“The United States has a commitment to help Taiwan provide for its self-defense,” said Oudkirk, who heads the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy in the absence of formal diplomatic ties.

Her remarks come as tension between Taiwan and China, which has not ruled out taking the democratically ruled island by force, has escalated in recent weeks.

While the United States, like most countries, has no formal ties with the Chinese-claimed island, it is its most important international backer and main arms supplier. President Joe Biden’s administration has moved to restate that support, to the anger of Beijing.
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Japan, U.S. Draft Operation Plan for Taiwan Contingency
December 23, 2021

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021 ... urces.html

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(Kyodo News) Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military have drawn up a draft joint operation plan that would enable the setup of an attack base along the Nansei island chain in the country's southwest in the event of a Taiwan contingency, according to Japanese government sources.

Japan and the United States will likely agree to begin work to formalize an operation plan when their foreign and defense chiefs meet in early January under the "two-plus-two" framework, the sources told Kyodo News by Thursday.

The development will likely draw a backlash from China, which regards the self-ruled island of Taiwan as a renegade province to be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary.

Under the draft plan, U.S. Marines will set up a temporary attack base at the initial stage of a contingency on the Nansei Islands, a chain stretching southwest from the Japanese prefectures of Kagoshima and Okinawa toward Taiwan. Okinawa hosts the bulk of U.S. military installations in Japan.

The U.S. military will get support from the SDF to send troops to the islands if a Taiwan contingency appears imminent, the sources said.
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Taiwan's Military Scrambles Jets After Detecting 39 Chinese Warplanes
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January 24, 2022

https://www.axios.com/authors/rfalconer/

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(Axios) Taiwan's defense force said 39 Chinese warplanes flew into its Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Sunday.

Why it matters: The largest Chinese air force incursion into the zone since October came a day after the U.S. and Japanese navies conducted a joint exercise in the Philippine Sea.

While China's government did not immediately comment on the latest deployment of aircraft near Taiwan, the Chinese military sent a record 145 fighter planes to the ADIZ last October after the U.S. conducted a joint naval exercise near Okinawa, Japan.
Details: Taiwan's defense force said in a statement China's military sent 34 fighters, four electronic warfare aircraft and a bomber to the ADIZ on Sunday.

The self-governing island's military scrambled its own jets, issued radio warnings and activated air defense missile systems in response, per the statement.
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If anything, China (along with Russia) will probably wait until 2029 at least.
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America and Europe should ASAP make their own electronics fabs in enough numbers to be independent from Taiwan and China. We also need to diversify supply chains as much as possible. I don't feel secure when most of cutting-edge chips come only from Taiwan.
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Tadasuke wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:09 am America and Europe should ASAP make their own electronics fabs in enough numbers to be independent from Taiwan and China. We also need to diversify supply chains as much as possible. I don't feel secure when most of cutting-edge chips come only from Taiwan.
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https://twitter.com/_AfricanSoil/sta...e5068086%2Fpg1

Message from China to the U.S

"Your military will be reduced into scrap iron"

In short:
"Stop causing and hyping unnecessary tensions between us (China) and Taiwan because you're provoking us and putting our security at risk, we shall respond"

Zikhala everywhere now

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