Tag: Taiwan Strait Crisis

China Conducts a ‘Maximum’ Pressure Campaign Against Taiwan

May 9, 2023
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Commentary The period from December 2022 to the present date has seen unprecedented Chinese Communist Party (CCP) challenges to the sovereignty of Taiwan. This should be called the Fourth Taiwan Straits Crisis, keeping with the naming convention of two different crisis periods of the 1950s and one during the 1990s. This period of tension is far more…

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Opinion: Top CCP Economist Calls on China to Seize Taiwan Chipmaker TSMC

June 23, 2022
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Commentary Earlier this month, Chen Wenling, the chief economist of China Center for International Economic Exchange, a state-run Chinese think tank, proposed that China “recover Taiwan” and seize Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) if the United States and the West imposed sanctions on China akin to those that have been imposed on Russia. TSMC is…

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Beijing Increases Military Spending, Requests Military to Help ‘Maintain Stability’

March 13, 2022
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News Analysis Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently issued a directive to China’s military and the armed police, asking the entire army to prepare for war and at the same time, assist local governments to “maintain stability” by handling emergencies in a timely manner. Moreover, China’s projected defense budget this year increased 7.1 percent year on…

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