Taiwan had the upper hand in the 60s, now China knows its power | ErykBagshaw
When Yuan Hong, a retired civil servant from China’s south was in primary school, the Taiwanese air force would dash across the Chinese border and drop propaganda leaflets on the population below.
Within 50 years, China has gone from being an impoverished nation unable to repel Taiwan’s propaganda missions to having territorial ambitions that pose the greatest threat to peace in Asia in generations. But China remains determined to chip away at that confidence through a daily psychological and diplomatic assault on the resistance to unification. By 2027, the US Department of Defence says, China could be ready for war.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton was more direct. “[Xi Jinping] has been very clear about their intention to go into Taiwan by hook or by crook,” the former defence minister said. “That’s a reality that we just can’t ignore.” “[This was a] grave incident concerning the security of Japan and safety of its people and its people,” Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said after the meeting.On Tuesday, China hosted South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin in Shandong. Its relatively new President Yoon Suk-yeol had earlier refused to meet with Pelosi because he was on holiday.
reported on Wednesday. The Chinese army’s Eastern Theatre Command declared an end to the official exercises on Thursday but said it would continue “military training for war preparedness” indefinitely. The paper emphasised rewards for collaborators in Taiwan and punishment for those who resisted Chinese occupation in a push to further divide the local population. It proposed implementing the “one country, two systems” model used in Hong Kong that is supposed to guarantee a “high degree of autonomy” but has bound Hong Kong’s legal, education and political systems to the mainland over the past three years.
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