Taiwan’s president said he needed to be prepared for a possible Chinese aggression.
Beijing:
Taiwan’s president fears a “potential threat” of an invasion by China amid repeated hints by Beijing, RT news agency reported.
It cited Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s statement to The Atlantic, where she expressed a “real threat” of Chinese aggression.
The RT news agency also cited an article written by Ben Rhodes, a speechwriter and deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama. In the article, Tsai said that they need to be prepared for a possible Chinese invasion.
“It’s real that this thing could happen to us, there’s a real danger. It’s not propaganda,” she said.
Although the Chinese military is much larger than Taiwan’s, Tsai has also tried to boost defense spending. During his tenure, defense spending has increased by 13 percent and is expected to reach $19 billion in 2023, RT news agency reported.
Taipei aims to make invasion too expensive for China
“If [People’s Liberation Army] wants to do something harsh, [Chinese President] Xi will have to weigh the cost. They have to think twice,” RT News quoted the former White House official as saying Tsai.
However, despite increasing Taiwan’s defense spending, and even after the US authorized billions of dollars in arms sales to Taipei, Taiwan still needed the West to control its military. , just like he is doing for Ukraine.
RT News quoted Taiwan’s president in the article as saying, “Western countries, especially the US, are helping Ukraine. What we see from the Ukraine war is that Western countries should unite and fight Ukraine.” help.”
RT news agency reported that shortly after Tsai’s talks with Rhodes, China opened its biennial air show, showcasing anti-drone weapons, fifth-generation fighter jets and reportedly hypersonic anti-ship missiles.
The RT news agency further cited analysts as a warning to the West that this flexing of the military muscle should not interfere with reunification with Taiwan.
Earlier on Monday, China criticized British Trade Policy Minister Greg Hands over his visit to Taiwan and said Beijing strongly opposes any official talks between London and the Taiwan region.
“China strongly rejects any official talks with Taiwan by any country that has diplomatic relations with China,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said during a regular media briefing.
Under Xi, China has taken a more rigid stance towards Taiwan, claiming that the island is a separate province that will eventually be “reunified” with the country.
The strong position has put it at odds with the United States and its Western allies, who maintain strategic ambiguity, but tensions escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August.
China perceived the visit as a challenge to its sovereignty over the nation and retaliated with a show of might and might by conducting massive military exercises and firing ballistic missiles over Taiwan.
The 69-year-old secured a historic third term as China’s president last month while piling up the almighty Politburo Standing Committee with loyalists, asserting his role as the most powerful leader since Communist Party founder Mao Zedong. shored up.
In his opening remarks to the party congress, Jinping declared that China would reunite Taiwan peacefully and would not give up the option of using force, Geo-Politic reported.
The Chinese President’s statement indicates that Taiwan’s integration with China is a major agenda for him.
His statement indicated that China was preparing for an imminent invasion of Taiwan. As Xi Jinping aims to put China at the center of the world stage, he has raised national security to the highest level and called on the nation to “unite in the struggle” to deal with difficulties.
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