Taiwan’s presidential office Recently ran a war game, or tabletop simulation, of Chinese military escalation:
Unlike traditional war games by the military, the tabletop exercise was aimed at testing how different government agencies could “ensure the normal functioning of society” in times of crisis, according to Taiwan’s presidential office.
It simulated two scenarios: one where China imposes “high-intensity” grey-zone warfare tactics, and a second where Taiwan is “on the brink of conflict,” the office said. Grey-zone tactics refer to actions that fall just below what might be considered acts of war.
Government agencies were not allowed to prepare notes in advance and had to react immediately to different contingencies, the presidential office said, without elaborating on the exact circumstances featured in the simulation.
While Taiwan’s military regularly holds tabletop war games to test its defense readiness, Thursday’s exercise was the first time that the presidential office has held a simulation that focuses specifically on civil responses to the threat of a Chinese invasion.
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Liu said that while Taiwan’s defense ministry was well positioned to respond to different situations, many government agencies struggled to clarify falsehoods during electricity or internet outages, highlighting the need for Taiwan to have a backup mechanism to ensure the flow of information.
She added that authorities have plans to recruit and train 50,000 volunteers across Taiwan to assist in disaster relief by the end of next year, which will include workers from the public sector.
A substantial minority of Taiwanese want reunification with China. That’s what the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) is all about.
In recent parliamentary elections, the Chinese Nationalist Party won 52 seats. The Democratic Progressive Party, the independence party, secured 51 seats (down from 68). The Democratic Progressive Party’s presidential candidate, William Lai, got 40% of the popular vote (down from 57% previously), and will be a minority president.
So, the last presidential/parliamentary election suggests that support for independence is now in the minority. This is all to the better, because China has made it clear that it will invade if Taiwan declares independence. All war games show a decided Chinese victory.
The joker in the deal is the US neocons. They are determined to incite a declaration of independence, because they actually want a war with China, and they are deluded enough to think the US will win.
Although Bolton and Pompeo are history, Trump still hangs out with neocons and Zionists. He will be a war president like every president since Washington. Expect more disasters, hopefully not nuclear.
“A substantial minority of Taiwanese want reunification with China.”
A substantial minority of Taiwanese want reunification if they get everything on a huge wish list, but they know the PRC will not give them most of that wish list.
“That’s what the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) is all about.”
No. The KMT is all about making believe that the KMT is still as strong in 2025 as it was in 1955. In their saner moments, KMT supporters are able to distinguish between planet Earth and the Land of Make-Believe, but even when they know they are lying, they are still able to make political gains from lying, so they are not going to stop.
If you want to learn about Taiwan, walk around the streets of Taiwan and speak to the locals in their own dialects. You will find that the English-language press is out of touch.
Bob Sykes says:
Maybe, but probably not before the Israel dumpster fire goes as bad as Ukraine dumpster fire got and there’s demand for some other news.
Wonder of wonders. «Show me the American isolationist foreign-policy professionals.» Because if there aren’t any, the choice of US foreign-policy professionals amounts to picking either
A: proglodites, or
B: neocons.
They both predictably suck, and everyone not eating the same shrooms as they do knows this. But who else? Do any other variants actually exist in the observable Universe right now?
Gaikokumaniakku says:
Isn’t it always?
Even more than the rest of their ilk, that is.