Posted on 09/01/2021 10:17:14 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China's armed forces can "paralyse" Taiwan's defences and are able to fully monitor its deployments, the island's defence ministry said, offering a stark assessment of the rising threat posed by its giant neighbour.
Beijing is stepping up military activities around the island, which it views as Chinese territory. It has never renounced the use of force to bring democratic Taiwan under its control.
In its annual report to parliament on China's military, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, Taiwan's Defence Ministry presented a far graver view than it did last year, when the report said China still lacked the capability to launch a full assault on Taiwan.
This year's report said that China can launch what it termed "soft and hard electronic attacks", including blocking communications across the western part of the first island chain, the string of islands that run from the Japanese archipelago, through Taiwan and down to the Philippines.
China "can combine with its internet army to launch wired and wireless attacks against the global internet, which would initially paralyse our air defences, command of the sea and counter-attack system abilities, presenting a huge threat to us".
China has also improved its reconnaissance abilities using Beidou, China's answer to the U.S.-owned GPS navigation system, the ministry added.
This means Beijing can monitor movements around Taiwan, helped by China's regular use of its own spy planes, drones and intelligence gathering ships, it said.
China's Defence Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
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Don’t worry—Joe has your back...he will give you the same treatment he gave the security dogs in Kabul...
China owns this country..money talks...
After the Pusillanimous Puddin Pop Puppet’s premier performance in Kabul, Taiwan will be lucky if the invasion doesn’t begin this week...
Give Taiwan and Japan nuclear weapons. They’ll take it from there.
CCP showed 20 years ago how it can paralyze Taiwan when they held naval live fire exercises off Taiwan’s main port having insurance carriers for cargo vessels suspend coverage.
Keep your head low
Bye bye Taiwan "One thing I .... can ... be certain..... of... We tried.... our........ best." We evacuated ...........almost all.... we could possibly ...... could."
Yup—Sun Tzu is very clear on this point—it is now or never...
Give Taiwan a few nukes.
MADD.
Stalemate.
Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam are all probably looking at a time table for their own independent nuclear deterrent. DeGaulle was no fool. He knew better than to rely on DC’s wisdom and will to protect France from an imperial communist state. A regional Asian Force de frappe is the only thing that will give the CCP pause.
Israel not-so-secretly developed nuclear weapons over the years and has a substantial number of them.
If Taiwan did not do likewise they were foolish not to do so.
US “security guarantees” de facto disappeared the moment Joe Stolen walked into the WH.
If we lose the TSMC fab we will be in deep $hit.
You can’t buy 5-nanometer parts just anywhere...
I have been gathering a small quantity of ARM SOC’s together in anticipation of a shortage.
I use them in designing things like medical devices... some of them are amazingly powerful and relatively inexpensive. (for now)
For lesser projects and hobby use I reach for the old 8-bit AVR’s mostly for nostalgia, and I’m used to them... It’s a bit silly as you can buy ARM cortex 32 and 64 bit devices for less these days.
Any bets on Japan scrapping limitations on their military (or nukes for that matter)?
China owns the KMT but not the ruling DPP.
Any day now. Frankly what’s holding them back?
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