WASHINGTON - China appears determined on using force in Taiwan, with Russia's experience in Ukraine affecting Beijing's calculations on how, not whether, to invade, the head of the CIA said Wednesday .
"The risks of that become higher, it seems to us, the further into this decade that you get," Mr Burns said. "Our sense is that it probably affects less the question of whether the Chinese leadership might choose some years down the road to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they would do it," Mr Burns said.
"I suspect the lesson that the Chinese leadership and military are drawing is that you've got to amass overwhelming force if you're going to contemplate that in the future," he said.
straits_times Correction to the Desk. That 'when' will be decided by Taiwan. They just have to declare independent. China values Taiwan too much to invade the regenade province.
Taiwan need to R&D in tsunami generating tech to stop china military.
Reunification? After civil war fr 1929-1949 with CCP which then formed communist PRC, ROC had moved on. Today, democratic ROC TW has no intention to take back the land CCP had coveted fr them. Strengthening ROC TW military prowess to deter invasion fr covetous CCP is paramount.
There's absolutely no legitimacy to claim ROC Taiwan as part of PRC China. CCP usurped mainland CN from ROC in 1949 to form PRC. So by all forms n definitions, TW remains ROC's. TW is never part of PRC.
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