Xi unleashes PLA on Taiwan
China’s military and intelligence services have significantly ramped up efforts to undermine the self-ruled island of Taiwan. These strategies have much to teach regional neighbours and the US on how to deal with China in the future, according to a new round table report by the Washington-based National Bureau of Asian Research.
The round table, Strengthening US-Taiwan Defense Relations, featured Peter Mattis, a former China analyst for the CIA.
He said the uptick in China’s military and intelligence coercive and provocative operations can be traced back to Taiwan’s 2016 election that ‘shattered Beijing’s complacency over Taiwan’s movement toward eventual
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