Taiwan Will Be Next
BEIJING WATCHES U.S. RESPONSE TO UKRAINE BEFORE GREEN-LIGHTING AN INVASION OF ITS OWN
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TAIWAN: Military exercise soldiers carrying machine guns and grenades rush to a fort during a shore defense operation as part of a military exercise simulating the defense against the intrusion of Chinese military, amid rising tensions between Taipei and Beijing, in Tainan, Taiwan.
ussia’s attack on Ukraine has raised the question: Is Taiwan next to be invaded by a
neighboring superpower? Experts believe the
13,976-square-mile island de- mocracy of 23.5 million will soon be seized by the Commu- nist People’s Republic of China — a major challenge to U.S. power in the Pacific. “Taiwan is on this tenuous
front line,’’ Michael Schuman, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and author of Superpower Inter- rupted: The Chinese History of the World, writes in The Atlan- tic.
“Just as [Vladimir] Putin
can’t tolerate Ukrainian sover- eignty, the Chinese Commu- nist Party will never accept the separateness of Taiwan, which Beijing considers a core part of China occupied by an illegiti- mate — and by the way, demo- cratic — government.”
Author and China expert
Gordon Chang told Fox News that there was an onslaught of propaganda from Beijing last summer following Biden’s botched withdrawal from Af- ghanistan . . . “how the United States couldn’t win wars any- more, how when China invaded Taiwan that the island would fall within hours and the U.S. military would not come to help. “So, clearly they’re watch-
ing U.S. responses to Ukraine,” Chang said. Chinese President Xi Jinping
has hinted publicly he would soon take control of Taiwan. “Ukraine does create an op-
portunity for Xi, who otherwise might have been deterred by the United States. Now, he sees the United States not using its power, so therefore, there is this opening that Xi Jinping is start- ing to perceive,” Chang said. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., be- lieves China is waiting to see
how badly sanctions hurt Rus- sia, and “what really the will- power is to stop an aggressive nation from gaining further ter- ritory.” Just days after the Russian
invasion of Ukraine in Febru- ary, President Joe Biden dis- patched a delegation of former U.S. officials to Taiwan, led by Mike Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to reassure America’s support. As they arrived, the U.S. De-
fense Department and Taiwan Ministry of Defense revealed that as many as nine Chinese aircraft had just entered Tai- wan’s air defense zone. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-
S.C., said he believes Russia and China likely had a “secret handshake’’ that “you don’t give me a hard time on Ukraine and I won’t give you a hard time about Taiwan,” he told News- max’s Eric Bolling. “President Trump made it
clear to those leaders that if you go down the road of Taiwan and China and Russia and Ukraine, I can’t help you and I’ll be your worst nightmare.”
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