{"id":122594,"date":"2023-12-10T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=122594"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:19:27","slug":"chinas-threat-to-taiwan-must-prompt-action-after-lesson-learned-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/chinas-threat-to-taiwan-must-prompt-action-after-lesson-learned-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinas threat to Taiwan must prompt action after lesson learned in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China’s increased threats against Taiwan must be met with decisive actions, a retired US Navy officer believes.<\/p>\n
Beijing will “eventually use force” if President Xi Jinping realises that he can’t annex Taiwan peacefully, according to retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery.<\/p>\n
But the Western world can take decisions aiming to deter a Chinese move on the Taiwanese territory Beijing claims as its own, Rear Adm Montgomery believes.<\/p>\n
Particularly the US, which while backing the One-China policy maintains unofficial relations with Taiwan, should make three moves to avoid a new war in the far east.<\/p>\n
Rear Adm. Montgomery, who is now a senior fellow at the think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a comment piece for Barron’s: “First, munitions. The No. 1 lesson learned in Ukraine has been the paucity of munitions, both on-hand and in factory production levels.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Tensions mount as Chinese coastguard ship blasts vessels with water cannon<\/strong><\/p>\n “Ukraine has been caught in an artillery crisis due to NATO\u2019s very short supply of standard 155mm shells. A similar issue exists for the numerous munitions that would be critical to defeating China in a massive air-sea battle. Let\u2019s raise, and meet, a new and higher level of munition production.”<\/p>\n The US and its allies, the retired officer continued, also need to look credible if they pledge assistance to democracies threatened by Russia, North Korea or China, and let these powers know help will be provided if other nations come under attack.<\/p>\n Finally, Rear Adm. Montgomery urged the US, Europe and Japan to coordinate to “prevent technology transfer to China, and to block Chinese intellectual property theft”.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> US President Joe Biden said multiple times in 2021 and 2022 that US forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion – which prompted the White House to stress the country’s policy towards the territory had not changed.<\/p>\n But the majority of Taiwanese people signalled they would welcome a tighter military alliance with Washington in the face of increased threats from China.<\/p>\n A poll, commissioned by the Taiwan Independence Alliance and the Taiwan Security Association, showed that 41.8 percent of respondents strongly agreed with the prospect of a military alliance with the US and 17.5 percent moderately agreed with it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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