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China is readying forces that could seize Taiwan in a future attack, analysts and officials say. Any military operation is likely to rely partly on China's militarized police.
Although President Xi Jinping's order for China's military to be prepared for invasion of Taiwan by 2027 needs to be taken seriously, an actual attack is not inevitable or imminent, he said.
China is willing to wait to unify with Taiwan, and the August 2022 exercises are not an indicator of accelerated PRC timelines. Xi Jinping feels there are still avenues to peaceful unification. The potential for a military crisis or conflict in the Taiwan Strait is very real. China would immediately invade if Taiwan declared independence.
China has declared two days of major military exercises simulating an invasion of Taiwan, a provocative move that it describes as “punishment” for the island’s newly inaugurated president.
The 2023 Chinese military exercises around Taiwan (simplified Chinese: 2023年环台军事演练; traditional Chinese: 2023年環台軍事演練) was a series of military exercises by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) encircling Taiwan. On 8 April 2023, the PLA announced the start of "combat readiness ...
Project Guoguang (Chinese: 國光計劃) was an attempt by the Republic of China (ROC), based in Taiwan, to reconquer mainland China from the People's Republic of China (PRC) by large scale invasion. It was the most elaborate of the ROCs plans or studies to invade the mainland after 1949.
The Joint Sword-2024 (Chinese: 联合利剑2024), was a military exercise organized by the Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to organize the land, sea, air, and rocket forces of the theatre of operations in the vicinity of Kinmen, Matsu Islands, and the Island of Taiwan.
China’s ability to block outside forces from entering the first island chain could pose a survival threat to Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, potentially cutting off naval access by ...