Fortuna Redux: Taiwan 2028?
A Safe Option for Taiwan, but a Nightmare for America
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2 August 2024 (Thursday)
Fortuna Redux: Taiwan 2028?
A Safer Option for Taiwan, but a Nightmare for America
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - Dear Readers: This is a MUST READ: Annexation of Taiwan: A Defeat From Which the US and Its Allies Could Not Retreat by Gabriel Collins, J.D., Baker Botts Fellow in Energy & Environmental Regulatory Affairs and Andrew S. Erickson, Ph.D., Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute.
What are the consequences for the United States if China were to succeed in coercively annexing Taiwan? This paper examines the potential for “coercive annexation” and how Beijing could attempt to bring Taiwan to heel politically while capturing much of te island’s industrial and technological infrastructure intact through (ideally) limited use of force. “Coercive annexation” grows from two lexical roots — coerce, “to achieve by force or threat,” and annex, “to incorporate (an additional geographic area) within the domain of a country, state, etc.” Put simply, one political entity employs force or the threat thereof to induce another to cede its autonomy and capacity for self-determination.
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command concludes, “China’s assimilation of Taiwan — with or without a fight — would mark a significant shift of (the) balance of power in the 21st century with global repercussions.”
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I recommend: Chinese Air-Launched Weapons and Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting Pods, Chinese Land-based Air Defense Systems: Anti-Aircraft Guns, Surface-to-Air Missiles, Electronic Warfare, and Radar Systems, Chinese C4I/EW Volume 1 and Volume 2, Chinese Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles, and Chinese Radars.
