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♣♣ Taiwan-China conflicts ♣♣♣ Taiwan have reasons to worry Trump ♣♣♣Trump's tariffs ♣♣♣ US won't defend Taiwan ♣♣♣♣ Spy war with China ♣♣♣Taiwan's defense
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pic. : No.1 "introduction to Taiwan" on Yandex of Russia (largest engine in Russia) at 2025-4-27, 2025-3-30, 2025-3-3, 2025-2-22, 2025-2-16, 2025-2-4, 2025-1-1, 2024-12-31, 2024-12-25, 2024-12-24, 2024-12-14, 2024-5-20, 2024-5-12, 2024-5-1, 2024-4-14, 2024-3-15, 2024-2-28, 2024-2-3, 2024-1-1, 2023-12-29, 2023-9-1, 2023-8-22, 2023-8-8, 2023-7-25, 2023-7-1, 2023-5-31, 2023-4-30, 2023-3-31, 2022-9-5, 2022-8-21, 2022-8-8;This websites group was ranked top "introduction to Taiwan" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-12-2, 2024-10-28, 2024-10-15, 2024-8-31, 2024-8-8, 2024-7-11
No.1 "introduction of Taiwan" on Yandex of Russia, 2025-4-27, 2025-4-13, 2025-3-30, 2025-3-3, 2025-2-22, 2025-2-16, 2025-1-1, 2024-12-31, 2024-12-25, 2024-12-24, 2024-12-14, 2024-9-15, 2024-5-12, 2024-4-14, 2024-3-15, 2024-2-28, 2024-2-3, 2024-1-1, 2023-12-29, 2023-12-24, 2023-11-11, 2023-11-1; No.1 "introduction to Taiwan" at 2022-7-31, 2022-7-7, 2022-7-1, 2022-6-24, 2022-6-15, 2022-6-12, 2022-5-26, 2022-5-14, 2022-4-30, 2022-3-14, 2021-12-27, 2021-12-4, 2021-11-21, 2021-10-21; No.2 at 2024-10-28, 2022-4-9, 2022-2-25; among top ranks at 2022-12-12; No.3 "introduction of Taiwan" at 2022-12-17
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| ◆◆Deutsche Welle (DW), 2025-5-5 | Energy would be Beijing's first target in case of a blockade or invasion. The water supply is powered by electricity, communication is based on electricity and the military would not be able to function without it. |
| ◆◆Real Clear Defense, 2025-5-5 | A Taiwan Strait war wouldn't be measured in months. It would be decided in days. The U.S. won't have time to surge exquisite assets across the Pacific... |
| ◆◆Economist, 2025-5-1 | Recent China's military exercises deployed in a “cabbage strategy” to wrap Taiwan in layers of forces. A blockade could provoke an American military response without forcing Taiwan to surrender. That is why a quarantine is more likely. |
| ◆◆Foreign Policy, 2025-5-1 | Trump Should Rein In Taiwan. Lai Ching-te gave several speeches that went significantly further than his predecessors in positioning Taiwan as a sovereign state that is separate from China, greatly increasing the risks that Xi could seize Taiwan's outlying islands, order a blockade, or even invade |
| ◆◆Brookings, 2025-4-25 | According to our survey, across almost all measures, the United States is seen as a less reliable partner, Taiwan and South Korea both feel less confident that the United States will assist them in the event of a conflict with their respective authoritarian neighbor. Only 37.5% of respondents in Taiwan believed in March 2025 that it is “likely” or “very likely” that the United States would intervene in a military conflict.brookings.edu/articles/the-trump-effect-on-public-attitudes-toward-america-in-taiwan-and-south-korea/ |
| ◆◆Fox News, 2025-4-23 | it is our house, we will keep it safe. |
| ◆◆The Conversation, 2025-4-22 | With the US now an unreliable ally, proliferation risk is greatest in East Asia: Japan, South Korea, even Taiwan |
| ◆◆The Hill, 2025-4-19 | The commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, gave testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee: In 2024, the People's Liberation Party demonstrated growing capabilities through persistent pressure operations with military pressure against Taiwan increasing by 300%”, “China's increasingly aggressive actions near Taiwan are not just exercises, they are rehearsals”. |
| ◆◆The Insider, 2025-4-19 | The commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command: China could stop US airpower from achieving air superiority in the first island chain, China's fighter fleet, bombers, and missiles are enough to cause problems. "their advanced long-range air-to-air missiles also present a tremendous threat.". Researchers have said that China could more easily devastate American airpower than the other way around. |
| ◆◆Asia Times, 2025-4-21 | New non-nuclear bomb’s high-temperature fireball and deadly shockwave anticipates urban warfare scenario in Taiwan |
| ◆◆New York Post, 2025-4-10 | Beijing insists will be annexed in the coming years. China acknowledges its role in years of cyberattacks against US over support of Taiwan |
| ◆◆Fox News, 2025-4-11 | commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said "With military pressure against Taiwan increasing by 300%, China's increasingly aggressive actions near Taiwan are not just exercises, they are rehearsals." |
| ◆◆Washington Examiner, 2025-4-10 | Should China try to take Taiwan militarily, it would result in a 25% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contraction in Asia and it would have a “knock on effect of 10 to 12% GDP reduction in the United States of America. The unemployment rate in the U.S. would spike “7-10 points above base and likely 500,000 excess deaths of despair above base as well,” |
| ◆◆Newsweek, 2025-4-8 | three likely Chinese actions in The Federalist: a full-scale blockade to pressure Taiwan economically; a lightning strike to achieve a fait accompli before Washington can respond; or a wider regional attack involving U.S. bases in Guam, Japan, or the Philippines. China is engaged in the largest military buildup in modern times, focusing on sea power, amphibious assault capabilities, long-range missiles, and nuclear weapons |
| ◆◆The Guardian, 2025-4-2 | Defence secretary Hegseth indicates US backing for Taiwan – but it is transactional Trump who has the final word. “There's a concern with the Trump administration that its attention shifts around, and what is promised now may not come through,” said scholat at U. Singapore. |
| ◆◆PBS, 2025-4-3 | Privately, Taiwanese officials admit they're not ready for the Chinese army |
| ◆◆Washington Post, 2025-3-21 | “We are moving toward conflict escalation with China, that's for sure”, said a professor at National Chengchi University. |
| ◆◆Daily Express, 2025-3-21 | Taiwan has issued a grim warning on China invasion — but world isn't listening |
| ◆◆Wall Street Journal, 2025-3-17 | Taiwan envisions Chinese assaults on the island to potentially come by land, sea, air and space as well as through cyberattacks, among others. China could launch a rapid invasion or blockade Taiwan to try to pressure it into submission. |
| ◆◆SUN (UK), 2025-3-14 | China to exploit Trump's New World Order with ‘perfect moment’ to strike Taiwan using invasion barges & 1.2m troops. Beijing is already shown signs of preparations for a potential war. |
| ◆◆Associated Press, 2025-3-18 | China conducts air and sea drills (an unusually large number of Chinese military ships, planes and drones entered airspace and waters surrounding Taiwan ) in response to US and Taiwanese statements. |
| ◆ Brookings, 2025-2-12 | China's strategy of “coercion without violence” includes cyber intrusions, economic coercion, influence operations, organized crime, united front activities, and ceaseless and intensifying military pressure surrounding Taiwan. In other words, Beijing is taking a full spectrum of actions... |
| ◆ The Telegraph, 2025-1-14 | China's invasion barges are a sure sign that war is coming. Some analysts believe China would need to move two million people across the Strait to guarantee victory. If and when the invasion begins, the barges might be the reason it succeeds |
| ◆ The Hill, 2025-1-7 | Lyle Goldstein, a professor at Brown University said the cost of a war with China is “incalculable” and would at the very least sow mass destruction in Taiwan and the South China Sea region; the U.S. should avoid a war over Taiwan, arguing it amounts to a civil war dispute. |
| ◆ USNI News, 2024-12-19 | The Pentagon's report recognizes that China has “both the will and capability to alter the international order in its favor”; but Xi Jinping's goal of having his military ready to carry out a “short, sharp invasion” of Taiwan by 2027 “is not possible right now” |
| ◆ Financial Times, 2024-12-13 | US nuclear build-up would not help deter China from using atomic weapons in Taiwan, war game finds; Unclassified exercise by CSIS and MIT suggests Washington should not go beyond current modernisation plans...only five of 15 iterations of the nuclear game ended with a withdrawal of the PLA. |
| ◆ New York Times, 2024-12-10 | Taiwan says China has deployed largest fleet of ships in decades, which could block American allies in the region from coming to Taiwan's defense. |
| ◆ Economist, 2024-12-5 | The views (the period of greatest danger has probably been pushed out for several years) are not universally shared, in or out of government. “Xi has his foot firmly on the accelerator and a full tank of gas". |
| ◆ Washington Examiner, 2024-12-4 |
Chinese leaders have said they want their military to be prepared to
invade Taiwan by 2027,
though U.S. defense leaders have said the date does not guarantee a
decision to carry out such an operation has been made.
War with China would exhaust munition stockpiles "very rapidly", national security adviser J. Sullivan acknowledged that China has "the single biggest advantage", "God forbid we end up in a full-scale war with the PRC" . |
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Taiwan might have reasons to worry about Trump. |
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| ◆ Economist, 2025-5-1 | Mr Trump's fickleness has made Taiwan's security seem more parlous |
| ◆ The WEEK, 2025-4-15 | Washington's long-maintained "security relationship" has been "less than assured" since Donald Trump took office recently. "the confusing signals" from America have left "Taipei wondering where it stands", said The Washington Post. |
| ◆ Newsweek, 2025-4-8 | Would Donald Trump Defend Taiwan? Even as Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. priority is the Indo Pacific, the U.S. military is focused on the Middle East, and there have been reports that the U.S. THAAD battery in Seoul along with two Patriot missile batteries, deployed elsewhere, were moved to the Middle East. |
| ◆ New York Times, 2025-4-1 | The problem with president Mr. Lai's approach is that Taiwan can no longer bank on U.S. support. This isn’t something that we are just now realizing |
| ◆ Wall Street Journal, 2025-3-17 | Taiwan's military planners signal to Washington the desire for a stable relationship as anxieties simmer in Taipei about whether President Trump would send help to defend against a Chinese attack. Trump's recent suspension of U.S. support for Ukraine heightened those concerns in Taiwan. |
| ◆ New York Times, 2025-3-6 | President Trump has pressed Taiwan to loosen its dominance in advanced semiconductors and to move production to the United States, and he has warned of hefty tariffs if his demands are not met.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world/asia/taiwan-tsmc-chips-arizona.html |
| ◆ TIME, 2025-2-27 | University of London expert says: I haven't seen any evidence that Trump cares much about Taiwan. Nanyang Technological University scholar says: China may be able to take Taiwan “without too much U.S. interference” if Beijing is able to strike a similar deal with Washington. |
| ◆ New York Times, 2025-2-25 | Mr. Trump executes a dramatic reversal of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, insisting that Ukraine is to blame for the war; a few Taiwanese commentators suggest that if war between China and Taiwan should erupt, Mr. Trump might take a similarly transactional approach. |
| ◆ Council on Foreign Relations, 2025-2-21 | Trump is making Taiwan more vulnerable. Trump has also made clear that he wants to negotiate a broad economic deal with China, which raises the question of what China will seek in return. If Trump can take Greenland, why can't China take Taiwan? |
| ◆ Washington Post, 2025-2-18 | Each statement by Trump that degrades the principle that territorial boundaries must not be redrawn by force or coercion might embolden China on Taiwan. political scientist Graham Allison : “Taiwan will be depreciated in the triangular relationship”,“I see no evidence whatever that [Trump] believes the U.S. has any vital interest in Taiwan.” |
| ◆ NY Times, 2025-2-13 | Taiwan prepares for Trump's tariffs and a more transactional U.S. relationship; Taiwanese officials have traveled to Washington to float energy deals and defend the island's semiconductors. |
| ◆ Bloomberg, 2025-2-14 | Taiwan President pledged to boost military spending to 3% of GDP; Trump suggested the archipelago should devote 10% of GDP to its armed forces. |
| ◆ CNN, 2024-12-15 | one thing's for sure: Trump is a less vocal supporter of Taiwan than Joe Biden. That's why Taiwan is buckling up for what could be a far more volatile relationship with Washington. Trump's remarks have prompted jitters that Taiwan would need to move more of its critical chip supply chain to the US at a faster pace, that could affect the island's economic security and dismantle the very “silicon shield” ... |
| ◆ New York Times, 2024-11-24 | Trump couldn't care less about Taiwan... Maybe he will strike some sort of bargain with Taiwan. But whatever Taiwan can offer him, Beijing can easily top. More and more, there are those in Taiwan who say we are an “abandoned chess piece,” no longer valued by the United States. China amplifies these fears... |
| ◆ Wall Street Journal, 2024-11-18 |
Some in Taiwan say its survival as a self-ruled democracy is
at stake, that it
can't afford to spend what Trump demands on defense and that it would wither in
the crossfire of a U.S.-China trade war. Taiwan's military spending is currently at 2.45% of GDP—a lower share than Singapore's 2.8% and South Korea's 2.7%; In Washington, the percent of GDP is really seen as a proxy for your seriousness. |
| ◆ Fox News, 2024-11-10 | Trump's public comments might suggest that he would not be willing to put boots on the ground to face another global superpower in defense of a tiny island democracy (Taiwan). there is hope among restraint groups that Trump will be focused on economic warfare with China – rather than military. "We don't have that alliance with Taiwan, ... the Taiwan issue is a powder keg — it's exceedingly dangerous. " |
| ◆ New York Times, 2024-11-10 | Tump's call for Taiwan to spend more on its own defense and his complaints about its semiconductor dominance may herald a tenser relationship. |
| ◆ Business Insider, 2024-11-9 | In 2025, Taiwan will have to contend with uncertainty on whether the US will protect it, or play it. |
| ◆ New York Times, 2024-11-6 | Some diplomats expect China to intensify pressure on Taiwan, if not invade Taiwan; and China may calculate that Mr. Trump would not go to war for a democracy that he has accused of “stealing” the microchip industry from the US. “With Donald Trump, there are large amounts of uncertainty,” said Lev Nachman, a political scientist, “And it's a matter of uncertainty that comes with great risk for Taiwan.” |
| ◆ Washington Post, 2024-11-6 | Trump's statements this year that raise doubt about his willingness to come to the island democracy's defense and his misleading assertion that Taipei needs to pay the US for defense. Such rhetoric could “fan the flames of skepticism” ... |
| ◆ New York Times, 2024-11-6, news briefing | Trump could decide to do the true “America First” thing and withdraw completely, and basically say, "defending Taiwan is not in our interest.” ... |
| ◆ Bloomberg, 2024-11-5 | Taiwan's Economic Affairs Minister acknowledged that Trump could introduce measures that might prove harmful for Taiwan's semiconductor industry. But the impact will not be as severe as some anticipate. |
| ◆ Reuters, 2024-11-6 | Trump might try to use the Taiwan issue as a bargaining chip to gain leverage in other areas, such as offering to restrain Taiwan's provocative actions in exchange for Beijing's compromise on trade. |
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Trump's tariffs |
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| ◆ The WEEK, 2025-4-15 | Increasing economic dependence on the US "could placate Mr Trump", said The Spectator, but "experience shows that it could just become a way for Trump to exert more pressure in the future". China has signaled it will not let the trade war keep it from the technology it needs. Expert at Techcet said,“Everyone is holding their breath". |
| ◆ Washington Post, 2025-4-9 | Tariffs put Taiwan on shaky ground with U.S., may open door for China. Taiwan can't afford to take on Beijing and Washington at the same time, Taiwanese professor at NCCU said. The U.S. aims to push other countries into negotiations through raising the tariffs, hoping they'll buy more American goods and services |
| ◆ New York Times, 2025-4-3 | The Taiwanese government condemned the tariffs as unreasonable and unfair to Taiwan. The government would lodge a strong protest...The chip companies in Taiwan, the center of the global supply chain, are expected to face pressure from Washington to invest more in the U.S. |
| ◆ Reuters, 2025-3-4 | TSMC's $100 bln gamble jeopardises 'Taiwan First'. TSMC committed to set up a major research and development centre stateside, despite an earlier assurance from boss C.C. Wei to keep innovation on the company's home island. That's a threat to Taiwan in multiple ways. The enormous disruption that military conflict would inflict on global semiconductor supply chains is a core part of the deterrence. But the more that TSMC replicates its business offshore, the more this protection will erode. |
| ◆ Politico, 2025-3-3 | Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC announces new $100B investment in US; CEO C.C. Wei credited President Donald Trump for the investments TSMC agreed to build a factory in the U.S. to cut reliance on geopolitically risky Taiwan during Trump’s first term. |
| ◆ Global Times, 2025-3-4 | Taiwanese critics claim TSMC “has become USMC”, calling the move “yet another example of the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) selling out Taiwan.” |
| ◆ Brookings, 2025-2-12 | Trump said in 2021, if China invades Taiwan, “there isn't a f—ing thing we can do about it.” |
| ◆ Fox News, 2025-2-7 | Trump's comments on the campaign trail suggest that he would not be willing to put boots on the ground to face another global superpower in defense of the island democracy. |
| ◆ Politico (EU), 2025-1-30 | Trump said the island should pay the U.S. for protection from China and suggested that trying to defend the island would be futile. |
| ◆ National Interest, 2025-1-13 | Why Trump Won't Defend Taiwan - Waging World War III for Taiwan—or any small nation, for that matter—would not be in keeping with the predilections and preferences of the incoming US president. |
| ◆ The Telegraph, 2025-1-13 | Donald Trump has appointed a number of hawkish foreign policy advisers to his transition team. However, he has pledged not to allow the US to become involved in foreign wars. |
| ◆ Newsweek, 2025-1-3 | Trump, who positioned himself as being tough on China, has suggested he would not defend Taiwan from China. |
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Taiwan has already lost its China spy war |
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| ◆◆Washington Post, 2025-3-28 | Taiwanese soldiers guarding president's office were spying for China. The presidential office should be the most secure place, this shows how severe China's infiltration is in Taiwan; Taiwan's sentencing on espionage activities has been too lenient. |
| ◆◆Washington Examiner, 2025-3-25 | Taiwan's defense and security structures are so deeply penetrated by Chinese spies that Beijing knows everything about its plans to deter aggression by the People's Liberation Army, including American defense and intelligence secrets. At this point, any secrets Washington shares with our Taiwanese partners stand a high chance of winding up in Chinese Communist hands.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3357074/taiwan-has-already-lost-its-china-spy-war |
| ◆◆Stanford Review, 2025-2-24 | Taiwan's military is dilapidated. Reports of Chinese espionage and infiltration are commonplace throughout Taiwan's military and civil society. |
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Taiwan's protection strategy |
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| ◆ PBS, 2025-4-7 | Taiwan's financial systems, energy and communications are vulnerable to Chinese blockade and cyberattack, and critics worry Taiwan isn't doing enough to prepare for social and economic disruption. On paper, Taiwan's reserves appear large. But these men say military training is insufficient, Many young people today are reluctant to join the armed forces. There's also a general lack of awareness among civilians about the importance of national defense. |
| ◆ PBS, 2025-4-3 | Privately, Taiwanese officials admit they're not ready for the Chinese army. Taiwan needs lots more cheap drones, with technology to repel jamming, secure satellite communications |
| ◆ Fox News, 2025-3-2 | most Taiwanese aren't willing to make the sacrifices required for victory in war. Migrant workers serving as essentially mercenaries would only highlight how few of our citizens are willing to fight . Taiwanese expert says: I understand the logic behind the U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity, but I fear far too many Taiwanese people – especially younger people – are counting on a rescue from Uncle Sam" |
| ◆ Stanford Review, 2025-2-24 | Taiwan's military is dilapidated. The assumption of CSIS's 2023 war game rests on false premises. Upon closer examination, Taiwan's military readiness and morale stand on weak foundations. What money the government does have to spend on procurement they do so on flashy items like fighter jets, tanks, and attack helicopters–are reduced to piles of twisted steel in hours of an invasion. stanfordreview.org/the-illusion-of-taiwanese-strength/ |
| ◆ New York Times, 2025-2-25 | Mr. Trump said Taiwan was spending far too little on its military and was too complacent about the United States coming to its rescue in a war |
| ◆ The Guardian, 2025-2-21 | many analysts believe a large part of Taiwan's protection strategy comes from keeping production of its most advanced chips – which form 90% of the world's supply – onshore. Bonnie Glaser: But Taiwan will likely face pressure from Trump to accede to his demands.” |
| ◆ Wall Street Journal, 2025-2-22 | Taiwan must “adopt a new military culture” akin to that of Israel, turning itself into a warrior-state—or “a porcupine”... “...enough rifles, pistols, and ammunition such that each member of the military, reserves, and civil defense force has emergency access to a personal weapon.” |
| ◆ Bloomberg, 2025-1-14 | Taiwan's military is not prepared for a Trumpian World; With the former president soon back in the White House, Taipei needs to rethink its defense strategy. |
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Unaffordable-island!! |
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| ◆ Bloomberg, 2024-1-11 | It costs 16 years of annual income to afford a home in Taipei — one of the highest such ratios globally. uk.news.yahoo.com/taiwan-voters-head-polls-ties-220000046.html |
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