Chinese blockade on Taiwan would be ‘monster risk,’ says Pentagon

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WASHINGTON, DC—A Chinese blockade on the island democracy of Taiwan would be a “monster risk” for Beijing and likely to

fail, while a military invasion would be extremely difficult, senior Pentagon officials told Congress Tuesday .

Ely Ratner, the Pentagon’s assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, said a blockade would be “a monster risk for the PRC ,” referring to China by its official name. He also pointed to island’s mountainous terrain and the Taiwan Strait waterway separating it from mainland China, saying “there is absolutely nothing easy about a PLA invasion of Taiwan.”

 

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