Beijing Accelerating Timeline for Possible Taiwan Invasion, Expert Warns

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Why is Taiwan so important to Beijing? Taiwan is home to Taiwan Semi-Conductor (TSMC), the worldโ€™s largest contract chipmaker and Beijing wants to acquire Taiwan’s semiconductor-making capability.

TAIPEI, Taiwanโ€”The Chinese communist regime is accelerating its plans to invade Taiwan, an expert warns, as Beijing ratchets up military maneuvers against the island.

Twenty Chinese military aircraftโ€”including four nuclear-capable H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 fighter jets, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and a KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraftโ€”entered Taiwanโ€™s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on March 26, according to Taiwanโ€™s Ministry of National Defense. It was the largest incursion ever reported by the ministry.

Taiwanโ€™s ADIZ, located adjacent to the islandโ€™s territorial airspace, is an area where incoming planes must identify themselves to the islandโ€™s air traffic controller.

The incursion was the most serious incident amid a significant increase in hostility by Beijing against Taiwan since 2020. Taiwanโ€™s President Tsai Ing-wen, reelected last January, has taken a hard line against threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while the island has deepened its cooperation with the United Statesโ€”prompting the regime to escalate its warmongering toward the island.

The CCP sees Taiwan as a part of its territory and has threatened war to bring the island into its fold. The self-ruled island is a de facto independent country with its own democratically elected government, military, constitution, and currency.

The Republic of China (ROC)โ€”Taiwanโ€™s official nameโ€”overthrew Chinaโ€™s Qing Dynasty emperor in 1911. After the ROC retreated to Taiwan upon being defeated by the CCP during the Chinese Civil War, the CCP established a communist state called the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, while Taiwan gradually transitioned to democracy. To this day, the Chinese regime has refused to recognize Taiwanโ€™s sovereignty.

Last year, the Chinese air force flew about 380 sorties into Taiwanโ€™s ADIZ, the highest number in a given year since 1996. So far this year, the Chinese military has been sending aircraft into the ADIZ on a near-daily basis.

The islandโ€™s coast guard on April 1 announced that Beijing has been flying unmanned drones near Taiwanโ€™s Dongsha Island, located in the northern part of the South China Sea. The authority said it couldnโ€™t rule out that Beijing was using the drones for reconnaissance purposes.

Alongside military actions, the regime has sharpened its rhetoric toward the island. Earlier this year, a Chinese defense spokesperson threatened war against Taiwan if it declared independence.

On March 31, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the hawkish state-run media Global Times, wrote on his social media that he would like to order able-bodied men to go blow up bunkers in Taiwan in the event of war.

An unnamed Chinese pilot, who flew one of the Chinese aircraft crossing into Taiwanโ€™s ADIZ on March 29, said, โ€œThis is all oursโ€ after being asked to leave the airspace by the pilot of a Taiwanese interceptor aircraft, according to local media, which obtained a recording of the pilotโ€™s remark from the Facebook page โ€œSouthwest Airspace of TW.โ€

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