It tossed out its emperor. Japan invaded. Then a brutal civil war tore the nation in half. That war never ended. Now it threatens to get hot again, fast.: Years of increasing tension across the Taiwan Strait appear to be coming to a head.
“That Xi has now decided to end the Hong Kong charade once and for all has ominous implications for Taiwan,” Mr Kagan writes. “China can launch devastating missile strikes against Taiwan in the first 24 hours of a conflict, leaving Taipei a choice between surrendering and holding out to see whether the Americans will arrive in time to prevent total annihilation.
“The region that has driven global economic growth for the past several decades would become a war zone, breaking global supply chains, transportation links and financial systems,” Mr Culver warns. “Taiwan would be the first battlefield of intensive combat operations between the world’s two most powerful military forces in a war that would quickly cease to be primarily about Taiwan’s autonomy, prosperity or the lives and livelihoods of its 24 million people.
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Why is the Murdoch media warmongering?
It’s not in China’s economic interest to start a war against Taiwan. They will simply keep piling on the pressure on Taiwan to a point where Taiwan will have to cede it’s authority to Beijing.
Just waiting on this China war bloggers with unnamed sources have been saying is around the corner for the last 18 months