Reuben Johnson
Intelligence Sources: China Will Try To Take Taiwan in Six Months – A takeover of the Republic of China (ROC) on the island of Taiwan by the Mainland People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly being considered a question of “not if, but when.”
Beijing’s unrelenting program of harassment activities directed against the ROC has been described by Sir Alex Younger, the former Chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service, as “a textbook on subversion, cyber and political harassment” or a case study for understanding the aspects of “grey zone” type warfare.
China’s Threat to Taiwan
While the situation with the ROC has unique aspects related to its long-running tensions with the Mainland, the grey zone-type harassment it faces is nearly identical to the actions taken by both the PRC and Russia against other nations in Europe and Asia. These include sabotaging undersea infrastructure like the internet and other communications cables, election interference, and digitalized disinformation.
On 4 March, the administration of US President Donald Trump imposed a set of tariffs on the PRC, which Washington billed as incentives for Beijing to return to what Washington defines as equitable and fair trade. This prompted the PRC ambassador to make the semi-ambiguous threat that his country was prepared for any “type of war” with the US.
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