Taiwan warned in its annual defense report that the Chinese regime could “paralyze” the island’s defenses and fully monitor its deployments. Taiwan’s National Defence Ministry identified more serious threats from the Chinese military in its latest report. The Ministry has submitted the report on Chinese military capabilities and next year’s defense budget to the legislature on Aug. 31. This year’s report said that the Chinese military could launch what it termed “soft and hard electronic attacks.” This includes blocking communications across the western part of the first island chain, the string of islands that run from the Japanese archipelago, through Taiwan, and down to the Philippines. China “can combine with its internet army to launch wired and wireless attacks against the global internet, which would initially paralyze our air defenses, command of the sea and counter-attack system abilities, presenting a huge threat,” according to the report. With precision missile attacks …