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China wants its military to develop ability to seize Taiwan by 2027

Source : Asian News International (ANI)

China wants its military to develop ability to seize Taiwan by 2027
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Beijing: Amid the escalating tension between China and Taiwan, the Deputy Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Cohen revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered his armed forces, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) to develop the ability to capture Taiwan by 2027.

Giving more details on the issue, the CIA Deputy Director said that the Chinese President has not decided yet but has asked his military to prepare it so that he can do what he wants, The Singapore Post reported, citing CNN.

“He has not made the decision to do that, but he has asked his military to put him in a position where if that’s what he wanted to do, he would be able to. It’s still the assessment of the IC as a whole that Xi’s interest in Taiwan is to get control through non-military means,” Cohen said as quoted by CNN intelligence and national security correspondent Katie Bo Lillis on her Twitter account.

Cohen’s statement lies with former US Commander Philip Davidson and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley last year.

According to The Singapore Post, Davidson, last year, said he was worried that to unify Beijing, there might be an accident in Taiwan in the next six years while Milley discussed the assessments with Congress last year. “Their assessment is based on a conversation with President Xi that asked the PLA to accelerate its modernization plan to develop its capabilities to capture Taiwan and to advance its completion from 2035 to 2027,” Milley said.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman further said that he only believed that Xi wanted to have the ability to invade Taiwan but had not yet decided whether to use that ability.

US Indo-Pacific Command Commander General John Aquilino warned that after Russia launched its special military operation in February, Beijing’s ambitions grew and became more daring. He further said that an attack on Taiwan is a real possibility, and “we have to make sure we are prepared for any action.”

Meanwhile, Taiwan has rejected China’s “one country, two systems” formulation, believing that only the people of Taiwan can decide their own future.

According to a recent report by the American Defence University, the investigation of the background of more than 300 senior officers of the Chinese Communist Party in the past few years revealed the potential fatal weakness of the PLA, that is, the lack of cross-service training, generally staying in the same military service in the early days of the army, and having a four-star command. Nearly half of the officers were “professional political commissars” and lacked combat experience.

Compared with US military officers, cross-service training has been required since 1986. All four-star officers have joint service experience and actual combat experience. According to the report, problems similar to those of the Russian army may occur in the Communist Army. If a war is launched, it may follow the Russian army’s disastrous defeat in the Ukrainian conflict, reported the Singapore Post.

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