![]() ![]() Prominent congressmen have urged President Joe Biden to learn from Russia’s attack on Ukraine and give Taiwan all the weapons it may need before an invasion, not after one has started. The Taiwanese government recently increased mandatory military service from four months to a year. ![]() After Nancy Pelosi, at the time the Speaker of America’s House of Representatives, visited Taiwan last year, China fired missiles towards it.Īmerica, meanwhile, is sending more military trainers to Taiwan. Its warships and fighter jets routinely cross the “median line” (in effect Taiwan’s maritime boundary) and harass military ships and planes of America and its allies. China’s forces often practise island landings. But in recent years, on both sides, rhetoric and preparations have grown more fevered. America has long pledged to help the island defend itself. The only certainty is that, even if all nuclear weapons remained in their silos, such a conflict would have horrific consequences, not just for the 23m people of Taiwan, but for the world.Ĭhina’s Communist leaders have claimed Taiwan since Nationalist forces fled to it after losing a civil war in 1949. As China’s military power grows, predicting how a war over Taiwan might unfold, and thus improving the odds of fending China off without unleashing a nuclear calamity, is getting ever harder. The hardest part, says Lieutenant-Colonel Jason Copeland, Darkside’s commanding officer, would be dealing with “an adversary that’s coming at you in mass”. ![]()
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