Taiwan Surrounded Again!
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28 March 2025 (Friday)
Taiwan Surrounded Again!
Chinese Circumnavigation Becomes the New Normal
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - This is ridiculous.
Taiwan has cancer.
Stage 3.
It has gone to the Americans for the best medical expertise and Uncle Sam has done his best. Taiwan has gone to the witch doctors of Chinese medicine with suction cups and needles, still nothing. Local temples have performed exorcisms, but the devil waits outside the gates tapping his foot, increasingly impatient.
In 2006, China finally established Air Parity with Taiwan (Stage 1). Where no side held any level of control, later China slowly reached the status of Favorable Air Situation (Stage 2), where Beijing had limited air superiority depending on conditions.
And now, China has Air Superiority (Stage 3) which is evident from the situation from the map below.