Analysis: True cost of war hits home for China hawks with designs on Taiwan | ErykBagshaw
The spiralling human, military and economic costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will force Beijing to reassess its plans for Taiwan, as Moscow counts the cost of a bloody war.
Grossman says Putin’s war book – years of disinformation campaigns, followed by a sudden assault on the Ukrainian land border with overwhelming forces, combined with the confidence that NATO and US forces would not intervene, had failed to engineer the swift victory that Moscow had envisioned. It is boosting its reserve force under the “overall defence concept” in case its civilians have to fight a guerilla war on the island while strengthening its resistance to Chinese disinformation campaigns designed to encourage its residents to surrender.
“It is time to abandon this ambiguity strategy. The people of Taiwan share our universal values, so I think the US should firmly abandon its ambiguity,” Abe told Fuji TV, suggesting that Japan could also be threatened if Taiwan came under attack and that it was time to consider hosting US nuclear weapons in Japan.Eric Sayers, an Asia-Pacific defence policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute says the war in Ukraine has opened new policy doors that weren’t there four days ago.
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