Name: 美-中: 會為台灣打起來嗎?（US-China: Could There Be War Over Taiwan? | Insight | Full Episode）
Uploaded: 2022-06-01T21:50:43.000Z
Duration: 45 min 17 s
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2021 has seen tensions over Taiwan at its worst in 40 years.

The Chinese government is saying to Taiwan,

But this is a conflict that goes beyond Taiwan.

This is fundamentally a superpower rivalry.

A war between the United States and China could escalate over Taiwan.

Despite the smiles at a recent summit, uneasiness remains.

the Taiwan issue is like playing with fire.

The Grand Hotel is an iconic landmark in Taipei,

hidden for over 50 years, until recently.

is the only five-star hotel in the whole world

It is encased in this because if a bomb explosion breaks it,

the broken glass would not fly everywhere and hurt anyone.

If you look at the thickness of this wall, it can absorb anything.

We were constantly worried that we would be attacked,

especially through air attacks from China.

Today, we still need shelters in case of natural disasters.

This place would still be a very handy escape route

Bunkers in Taiwan are not just a relic of the past.

Across the island, there are over 100,000 air raid shelters.

Yellow stickers in Taiwan indicate underground parking lots

Air raid drills remain part of life in Taiwan.

Typically, you should stop all activities

This is a good reminder for the people about the possibility of war.

And the possibility of war hangs over the island.

over 700 Chinese military jets entered Taiwan's air buffer zone,

which is called an air defence identification zone,

And it's just an area of general security

A record number of China's aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone.

October was a particularly worrying month.

there were almost 150 military aircraft in four days.

I believe that China is trying to intimidate Taiwan.

It was alarming, in terms of the number of aircraft.

Xi Jinping has called on the Chinese military

and to be prepared for war if it happens tomorrow.

in far more realistic ways than ever before.

We can hurt you with our bombers and we can hurt you with our fighters.

It also signals China's intention to rely more and more on military means

to achieve their own goal of national unification.

At the heart of the tensions, Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state.

Beijing, on the other hand, sees Taiwan as a breakaway province,

one that separated from China in the civil war of 1949.

Nationalist forces were defeated by the Communists

and forced to flee the mainland for Taiwan.

Fleeing nationalists embark to cross the ocean

and they call that the "One China" principle,

So, that is the inherent tension in the cross-strait relationship.

I think this is a very important issue, not only for Taiwan and Asia,

If there's any conflict in the Taiwan Strait,

it will not only be limited to the two parties.

The fate of Taiwan will be of immense significance

This doesn't mean that China, like Genghis Khan,

is going to stampede all over the region.

But it does mean that Beijing seeks to arrange a regional order.

It's certainly possible that a war between the United States and China

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