Name: 中美会不会对台湾发动战争？（Will China and the US go to war over Taiwan? | FT）
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Annexing Taiwan is the number one task for the People's

Taiwan's military is no match for China's.

China says it will fight rather than allow

And as it does so it's showing more and more attention

towards reclaiming territory that it has long

This can be seen in the South China Sea, the East China

Sea, and along its Himalayan border with India.

The tensions in all these areas are increasing the focus

on Taiwan, a self-governing island of 22m people

that Beijing regards as its sacred territory.

Recently, it's increased its military exercises near Taiwan.

And unusually, some official Chinese newspapers

have been mentioning Taiwan in the context of the Korean war,

which China says it was drawn into against its will

to prepare a similar argument about the present situation.

We're seeing disinformation being spread about alleged

seize upon to call for military action against Taiwan.

have also started describing military drills close to Taiwan

as necessary to protect national sovereignty.

They allege that the US is upending stability

and that Beijing has no choice but to defend its interests.

So Kathrin, what's the feeling at the moment in Taiwan about

the recent manoeuvres by China's People's Liberation Army

Taiwan really has been rattled this time around.

Of course, summer, especially July and August,

is the traditional season for military exercises

to master this new equipment and train on it.

Also, annexing Taiwan is the number one task

that we are seeing operations around here.

What is surprising however, or what is abnormal actually,

is that China is abandoning, or appears to be abandoning,

the practises that kept the peace in the Taiwan Strait

And the political language out of Beijing

By and large, Beijing and Taipei both respected the Taiwan

proposed by the US more than 60 years ago.

In March last year Beijing violated that line

And since then the PLA air force has crossed it

Earlier this year Chinese forces did even a night-time exercise

right on the edge of that median line for the first time.

And more recently, in September, the PLA held a two-day large

scale manoeuvre on Taiwan's side of the strait.

This kind of activity is called grey zone operations.

They don't constitute a breach of international law.

But they instigate fear in Taiwan society

because they remind the country that this standing threat

China has had to invade if Taiwan doesn't toe the line,

are not limited to Taiwan and China alone.

The other big player is the United States.

And the US position on Taiwan seems to me

On the one hand, it doesn't recognise Taiwan as a country.

But on the other hand, it does supply weapons

for Taiwan's defence that help Taiwan maintain its de facto

if this so-called strategic ambiguity is fraying a bit.

If we look back, the beauty of this ambiguous policy

was that it long worked to deter China from aggression

because China couldn't be sure what Washington would

worked to discourage Taiwan from political moves that

could have raised tensions, for example to officially declare

the independence it, in fact, already has.

Now there's a growing debate in Washington

over whether the deterrence bit of this equation still works.

The People's Liberation Army has, in some respects,

become a peer for the US military, at least

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