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Any country supporting Taiwan in military relations will face “worse consequences”, The Chinese government warned on Saturdayadding that “no one and no force” will be able to stop the Communist Party if it takes action against the island nation, the report said.
China’s relations with Taiwan have become the focus of the background Russia’s invasion of Ukraineand the island strengthens its own defenses since the war began in case of aggression from the mainland.
Taiwan has said it plans to double its annual missile production capacity this year. The announcement from the Department of Defense came after Taiwan approved an additional $ 8.6 billion in military spending over the next five years.
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The Chinese military walks past a plaque with a photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping on March 4, 2022 in Beijing.
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The Communist Party’s warning came the day after Chinese President Xi Jinping held diplomatic talks Australiareports Sky News Australia.
China’s Ministry of National Defense has accused Australian Defense Secretary Peter Dathan of “ideological bias” after he said the country would do “everything we can” to keep China from attacking Taiwan. Sky News reported.
A more aggressive stance
China has recently taken a more aggressive stance against the democratic island nation, sending a record number of fighters to Taiwan’s air defense zone late last year.
And last month, when Russian tanks entered Ukraine, nine Chinese planes entered Taiwan’s air defense zone, which triggered a warning broadcast from the island nation.
Taiwan has been increasingly tense since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, seeing parallels between their own situation with Beijing. After the invasion slogan “Today Ukraine, tomorrow Taiwan!” is distributed online, according to The New York Times.
According to some estimatesChina spends more than $ 250 billion on its annual military budget, while Taiwan spends about $ 13 billion.
The Communist Party, characteristically, has prevented Taiwan’s recent concerns over Moscow’s war in Ukraine, believing that its exaggerated rhetoric should make Beijing look aggressive.
“Continue watching”
“We keep watching to try to determine there is [China] Have you learned the right lessons about the change in world order and the concerns we see in Ukraine? ” Wartimethe only global condemnation of Russia’s invasion and its military struggle in Ukraine.
Failure for Russia is encouraging to many in Taiwan.
“Putin’s war is sending a signal to China that taking Taiwan will not be as easy as he imagines,” Taiwanese lawmaker Lin Chu-Yin told Bloomberg this week. “And it also destroys the myth that you can easily defeat another smaller or weaker country militarily with missiles.”
Bradford Betz of Fox News contributed to this report.
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