China makes second largest Taiwan defense zone incursion this year

Self-ruled democratic Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary.

The authoritarian CCP , similar to its sometimes partner authoritarian Russia, reasons like a virus or a cancer cell, needing to continually expand, and once it expands it just spreads more diseases and deaths like a virus or cancer cell, China is a geographically enormous country, it has more than enough space within its current borders (not including Taiwan) to spread its diseases there. How long until China and Russia have military clashes over territories each wants to control.

Hats off to the people of Taiwan for developing a successful nation, too bad the predatory CCP ruling caste want to take what the Taiwanese peoples worked so hard to create.

And so it begins, Japan it is imperative that you start preparing accordingly and do not believe any of the lies the Biden administration is feeding you.

Yes, it’s really a severe situation there and all indicators show a threat of a near military conflict. On the other side it’s especially now not so very helpful to define that own ADIZ overlapping and such big that they in theory couldn’t even fly in their own mainland territory without complaining. Biden saying U.S. will come for help defending Taiwan surely didn’t include much pleasure showing when they just shortly after put the next oil into the flames, I guess. lol

The ADIZ is not the same as Taiwan's territorial airspace but includes a far greater area that overlaps with part of China's own air defense identification zone and even includes some of the mainland.

So China did nothing wrong and this is a non story designed to inflame the anti China crew.

They were just pumped up after seeing Top Gun: Maverick and got a little over enthusiastic. It happens.

The ADIZ is not the same as Taiwan's territorial airspace but includes a far greater area that overlaps with part of China's own air defense identification zone and even includes some of the mainland.

Taiwan's ADIZ covers mainland China. Non-story. China knows its goal is to not get goaded into war by the U.S. You will be witnessing peace and restraint at the frustration of Blinken and the U.S.

China isn't playing or testing waters. They're clearly signaling their intention. They will have another one of these "practice" runs except it won't be practice and it will have live munitions.

China needs to be stopped at all costs if its war that will stop them well the sooner the better.

Wow.... war with China because China flew its planes in international airspace and Chinese airspace?

or you just being a douche whatever.

Certainly inflamed you ... keyboard warrior...

China is a third world country, it has to use force, intimidation, firewalls and lies to keep it’s country together.

Time for Taiwan's Air Force to do an exercise into China's defense zone and see how they like it.

Send 3 or 4 squadrons of fighters and check how China responds, in the same way China checks how Taiwan reacts to Chinese incursions into Taiwan's defense zone.

I am sure the first time Taiwan did something like that, it would surprise the bejesus out of them.

Taiwan needs some Kamikaze drones with a high speed of mach 2.5 - 3.0 that can fly under AI and keep tabs on incursions. They could even make radio contact with the Chinese planes and let them know they are unmanned armed drones that are prepared to take action should the Chinese planes approach Taiwan air space. Keep their larger manned fighters for actual combat, and use Cheap to produce drones like the "loyal wingman" being produced in Australia or US versions with similar applications.

Taiwan has rights, and it seems China needs to be reminded of that fact from time to time.

Northern life...

sorry but your question is quite illogical. I'm quite happy living in Japan. Happy to visit China again, as I have on several occasions. The vast majority of Chinese are very happy to be living in China.

Whats this got to do with Chinese planes flying in Chinese and international airspace?

Japanese, US, Russian, UK, French and even planes from Taiwan do this everyday of the week.

China isn't playing or testing waters. They're clearly signaling their intention. They will have another one of these "practice" runs except it won't be practice and it will have live munitions.

There won’t be war. China knows that’s what the US wants. This is all for the US delegation that is visiting Taiwan which the article doesn’t mention. Senator Duckworth is there on a three day trip.

Strategic ambiguity

Absolute rubbish !

The white house clearly announced it respects the One China agreement with Beijing as the official capital and does not officially recognize Taiwanese independence.

However more than happy to sell weapons to Taiwan .

@peter14

An exercise into China's defense zone

That's just pathetic !

And will never happen.

Try grasping the larger picture and watching less movies.

Dream on !

@Slayer What lies are you reading coming from the Biden administration? Where are you getting your news from the CCP.

And so it begins, Japan it is imperative that you start preparing accordingly and do not believe any of the lies the Biden administration is feeding you.

@quercetum

There won’t be war. China knows that’s what the US wants. This is all for the US delegation that is visiting Taiwan which the article doesn’t mention. Senator Duckworth is there on a three day trip.

I do agree with you that there would not be a war, China is no fool its a war they DO NOT WANT! I guess the pilot from the CCP watched Tom Cruise and went on a wild plane ride. As I have said before the crap they make does not work, yes the planes may fly but lets see how they perform in battle in a dog fight. I don't care how many planes the CCP have they can't hit what they can't see. I hope that clump of metal planes they make can with stand the tight and heavy g-loads and g-turn. I can only imagine the crap breaking apart!! On another note China can never invade the US they will never win an urban warfare, we read about it everyday of how many Americans have guns. China would be a cake walk if the Americans were to invade China, what are the people gonna do with no access to gun ownership, no guns to protect themselves. The citizens are not battle tested just book tested!. Bye Bye!!

China is a third world country

That's hilarious.

And obviously not true.

Happy to live under Chinese rule are you ?

Its staggering and amazing how oblivious some people are to how China rules !

Look around you and see all the made in China products.

China's rule you have contributed to and probably still do.

@northernlife

There's no stopping China !

Or have you learned nothing ?

There's no stopping China !

The fall of the CCP is inevitable. While they look so strong, they are rigid and brittle. China faces daunting problems in the very near future as its population declines sharply, the proportion of the population too old to work rises, major Chinese cities are slowly swamped by rising sea levels while rivers decline as the glaciers that feed them disappear. The CCP is probably the least capable form of government to deal with these problems successfully. 30% of the Chinese GDP comes from the construction industry, which became wealthy building apartments and condos for a rapidly rising Chinese population. But now China is over built with something on the order of 40-50 million housing units sitting there brand new and unoccupied. Now their population is declining and the need for new homes is vanishing. A big chunk of the Chinese GDP is about to evaporate and the economic loss along with demographic changes has implications for the ability of the CCP to control an angry Chinese people. Like the old USSR they will look invincible almost to the end, and the end will come suddenly. But if the west plays things right there is every reason to expect the government of Taiwan to outlast the CCP.

China treats Taiwan like a jealous, possessive boyfriend.

Doesn't like Taiwan talking with other boys (Countries), and tries to isolate Taiwan from the world.

Wants her to stay at home with no friends.

Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne

Strategic ambiguity

Absolute rubbish !

The white house clearly announced it respects the One China agreement with Beijing as the official capital and does not officially recognize Taiwanese independence.

I guess you don't understand foreign policy. Strategic ambiguity means that China doesn't know if the US would get involved in a war between China and Taiwan. Which means they can't know the risk of such a venture. That is probably the only thing deterring them from doing it.

We've seen in Ukraine that Putin was sure enough that the US wouldn't get involved. If he wasn't sure, he probably wouldn't have invaded.

There was an article written late last year on the US trying to provoke China in starting a war.

One on the topics was to involve western media in their scheme. Kind of what they are doing now in Ukraine.

And this was one of their objectives for the media: Creating an artificial “Taiwanese air space” zone and falsely alleging “incursions” or “violations” of it;

See attached; https://johnmenadue.com/strategists-admit-west-is-goading-china-into-war/

Chinese scientists are worried about Starlink from SpaceX ... because it can provide unfiltered internet - which is considered national security there. Can't have the billions of Chinese gaining access to outside truth.

https://www.space.com/china-ways-destroy-spacex-starlink-satellites

A combination of soft and hard kill methods should be adopted to make some Starlink satellites lose their functions and destroy the constellation's operating system," the researchers, led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications, which is part of the Chinese military's Strategic Support Force, wrote in the paper.

All the anti-US rhetoric from the CCP confuses me. Why do they claim the US is imperialistic? That is clearly not the situation. If it was, Japan, Germany, Granada, Iraq, would all be under US control.

What does the US gain by supporting Taiwan? That's the real question. I can think of only a few things, most of which also help Taiwan.

It keeps Taiwan as a democracy. That's the main goal.

It provides Taiwan as a trading partner for all sorts to things - going in both directions.

It irks the CCP. Always a bonus.

Also, don't forget that the ROC was the "China" that worked with the US during WW2, not the CCP. Regardless of the CCP's revisionist, false, history claims. Chiang Kai-shek was the Chinese representative in Cairo. https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=2&post=3660

None of that seems imperialistic. Taiwan without the CCP is a free country, with democratic leadership. Taiwan under the CCP will follow the Hong Kong method ... and eventually be treated like the Xinjiang region with Uighurs.

The vast majority of Chinese are very happy to be living in China.

Was that what they were chanting in Beijing and Shanghai during the lockdowns for 60+ days? Perhaps I missed it.

Tibetans, Hong Kongers, and Uighurs don't seem pleased at all.

The people living in Shanghai just realized they live in a dictatorship where they have ZERO rights. It was news for many there.