China's increasing military and non-military pressure on Taiwan is analyzed, highlighting the tactics used to coerce the island into submission. While a full-scale invasion remains a distant threat, China's persistent harassment and intimidation strategies are taking a toll on Taiwan's resources.
in 2024 as it builds its ability to launch full-scale invasion, something a former chief of Taiwan ’s armed forces said Beijing could be capable of within a decade. Analysts said China ’s relentless harassment had taken a toll on Taiwan ’s resources, but had failed to convince them to capitulate, largely because the threat of invasion was still an empty one, for now. Xi Jinping’s determination to annex Taiwan under what the president terms “reunification” is no secret.
He has publicly and stridently promised to bring it under Communist party (CCP) control, subsumed into the Chinese motherland, by force if necessary, on multiple occasions including as recently as his 2025 New Year address to the nation. But in an effort to force Taiwan’s hand without resorting to a direct military attack, the military – the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – has targeted it with waves of harassment and intimidation, using anything from weather balloons to aircraft carriers. This has all combined with continued non-military tactics, including legal and cyber warfare, disinformation campaigns, and the weaponisation of diplomatic and trade relationships. But until China is capable of a full-scale invasion, such tactics are are “meaningless” as long as Taiwan does not surrender, a former head of Taiwan’s armed forces, Admiral Lee Hsi-min, told the Guardian.The PLA’s Taiwan-focused tactics could be broadly categorised into four types, he said. “Intimidatory” tactics included grey zone warfare such as its near-daily incursions into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), “coercive” tactics could be a blockade or quarantine, “punitive” attacks included missile bombardments, and “conquest” was a full-scale invasio
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