US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indian and Pacific Ocean Security Affairs Eli Ratner said the US believes the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and other PRC forces are increasingly willing to take risks. TASS.
According to him, PLA’s potential is “getting stronger and stronger”. As a Pentagon spokesperson pointed out, the People’s Liberation Army of China is “becoming more willing to take risks, to use the means of military force in a way that was not available in previous periods.” He pointed out that this has manifested itself in recent “unsafe interference” by Western military aircraft.
As Ratner says, this is a “special concern” for Washington.
He also denied the allegation that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army was primarily seeking conflict with Western powers. According to the deputy minister, the Chinese “do not get into fights” but also “may be trying to coerce and intimidate others.” According to Ratner, they are “too smart to fight”.
He also said that the US did not see mainland China’s invasion of Taiwan imminent before the end of the decade.
“I think it is possible to provide. It will be really difficult (to do). But it is urgently worth doing. And with the confidence that we can achieve it, ”the Pentagon spokesman added.
Previously, the Center for Strategic and International Studies developed a computer game that simulated scenarios for China’s possible invasion of Taiwan and subsequent intervention in the conflict between the United States and Japan. Experts are confident that Beijing will not win, Taiwan will remain an independent state, but the armies of all participating countries, including the American, will eventually become extremely weakened. More details – in material “socialbites.ca”.
The Taiwan question has been open since 1949, when the communist People’s Republic of China was proclaimed on the mainland and the Kuomintang party, which previously ruled the country, fled to Taiwan. Beijing insists on the “one China principle” in Taiwan that it is impossible to recognize both the PRC and the Republic of China at the same time. The situation in the region has escalated due to the visits of American delegations to Taiwan in 2022.