Taiwan Defence Minister fears full scale Chinese invasion by 2025
The Hindu
China is more and more over the top, says Su Tseng-chang
Taiwan Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, that of mounting a full scale invasion of the democratic island by 2025.
Over a four day period beginning last Friday, Taiwan reported close to 150 Chinese air force aircraft entered its air defence zone, part of a pattern of what Taipei calls Beijing's continued harassment of the Chinese-claimed island.
". China is more and more over the top," Premier Su Tseng-chang on Tuesday told reporters in Taipei. "The world has also seen China's repeated violations of regional peace and pressure on Taiwan."
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