News Analysis In recent years, Beijing has threatened to take Taiwan by force, if necessary. Will a war soon break out in the Taiwan Strait? Experts and politicians from both countries share their views on the issue. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could occupy Taiwan in a week and is not afraid of fighting U.S. forces in the Taiwan Strait, Jin Canrong, a renowned Chinese professor from Renmin University’s School of International Studies and foreign policy adviser to Beijing, told Nikkei on Jan. 31. “It is very likely that the leadership will move toward armed unification by 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding,” Jin claimed. Since 1949, Taiwan and mainland China have been run by two different governments. In the past decades, the Chinese regime has claimed the island as its own, despite the fact that Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically-elected …