China is literally inching closer to Taiwan to make invasion that much easier.
Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
China is doing something very devious regarding Taiwan.
Wow. I don’t know if I’ve ever said a more evergreen sentence in the history of this show.
But now, China is getting so brazen that on Monday,
its coast guard boarded a Taiwanese boat full of civilians!
Surprised? No, me neither. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.
For years, Taiwan has dealt with encroaching Chinese operators.
Like Chinese “fishers” who ram boats…
…and steal fish…
…as well as sand from within Taiwan’s prohibited and restricted zones.
Yes, they’re stealing sand,
because how else could China build all those crumbling infrastructure projects?
They gotta get the materials from somewhere!
All this is absolutely done with the Chinese Communist Party’s permission.
It’s part of the CCP’s gray zone strategy to coerce Taiwan with everything short of war.
Which leads us to last week’s sea chase incident.
“According to Taiwan's authorities, a Chinese speedboat carrying four people
entered Taiwan-controlled waters off Kinmen near Beiding Islet,
a military outpost just east of the main island.”
When the Taiwanese coast guard approached the speedboat, the fishermen sped away. Their speed
boat capsized, and all four occupants fell overboard. They were all rescued,
but two of them were pronounced dead in Kinmen Hospital after resuscitation failed.
That happened near Kinmen Island, which is only a few miles away from Xiamen in mainland China,
making it part of the front line for Taiwan.
Of course, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office pounced on the opportunity to put the blame on Taiwan.
Taiwan Affairs Office spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian called the sea chase a
“malicious incident” that has “severely harmed the feelings of compatriots.”
While any rational person would call this a case of “play stupid games,
win stupid prizes.” With the stupid prize here being the dumbest death by speed boat of all time.
Zhu also stated that Taiwan’s Democratic People’s
Party authorities have been using “rough and dangerous methods towards Chinese fishermen,
which is the main reason leading to this vicious incident.”
Yes, because any time Taiwan tells Chinese nationals to get out of its territory,
that’s “using rough and dangerous methods.”
That’s like saying cops who tackled an armed suspect were abusing their authority. “Come on,
that’s gonna leave a bruise! Why didn’t you just let him shoot 30 or 40 people instead?”
And you can tell based on that analogy that I live in America.
Zhu also said that fishermen from China had been operating in the sea area since ancient times,
and that “There is no such a thing as ‘prohibited or restricted’ waters in the zones.”
Of course! China gets to have maritime borders,
but Taiwan? Pssht! Those are ancestrally shared waters. Be a better neighbor, Taiwan!
Zhu went on to say, “The mainland is full of goodwill towards Taiwan compatriots, but will
not tolerate the Taiwan authorities’ disregard for the lives and property of mainland fishermen.”
Yup. This definitely looks like goodwill to me.
The CCP is clearly using the sea chase incident to justify nibbling away at Taiwan’s territory.
Shortly after Zhu’s comments, Chinese Coast Guard spokesperson Gan Yu said
that the Fujian Coast Guard Bureau would mount regular patrols where the two fishermen died…
…supposedly to “maintain operational
order in sea areas and safeguard fishermen’s lives and property”.
And by “their property” they mean Taiwan. And who they’re safeguarding it from is… also Taiwan.
On Monday morning, online ship tracking information showed four Chinese coast
guard vessels operating just outside of Taiwan’s prohibited and restricted zones around Kinmen.
That same day, Taiwan reported that Chinese coast guard personnel boarded
a Taiwanese tour boat with 11 crew members and 23 passengers.
This was after the vessel reportedly veered slightly off course, which shouldn’t have
been an issue, since Chinese tour boats do the same thing into Taiwanese waters regularly.
Because if China didn’t have double standards, we wouldn’t know they had any standards at all.
Two Chinese coast guard boats intercepted
the sightseeing vessel at around 4:47 pm local time. Six officers boarded,
checked its route plan, certificate, and crew licenses, and left around 5:19 pm.
As the people on board heaved a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the Taiwan vessel returned to
Kinmen safe and sound. But this story easily could have ended differently.
Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration is now warning Taiwanese vessels that if similar incidents happen
in the future, they should refuse Chinese requests to board and seek help immediately.
Which is probably good advice. Who knows if the Chinese coast guard
officers will do more than just “inspect” the vessel next time.
China is so shady that Taiwan is now having to teach stranger danger even
about their boats. What kinds of names is China giving their ships? The SS Bad Touch?
But China isn’t only inching its way closer to Taiwan on the sea. There’s something new going on.
I’ll tell you more after the break.
Welcome back.
China is salami-slicing its way into Taiwan’s borders to make an invasion more possible.
Given that every Chinese corporation answers to the CCP, you bet that even
Chinese cargo ships can quickly be militarized and used against Taiwan.
But it’s not just the sea that Taiwan needs to worry
about. Taiwan needs to keep its eyes on the sky.
It should already be common knowledge by now that Chinese military aircraft…
…and Chinese spy balloons constantly make incursions into Taiwanese airspace.
But here’s something that Taiwan also needs to worry about now: Chinese *civilian* airlines.
Last month, China unilaterally decided to move its
civil aviation flight routes closer to the Taiwan Strait median line.
That’s an unofficial boundary between China and Taiwan.
And now it’s really unofficial.
Beginning on February 1st of this year, Chinese civilian aircraft
on the southbound M503 flight route are allowed to fly 4.2 nautical miles
from the median line, instead of the formerly agreed upon 6 nautical miles.
A 1.8 nautical mile adjustment may not seem like much,
but it puts Chinese aircraft just that much closer to Taiwan.
China also announced that it would start using two secondary routes connecting M503 with the
cities of Fuzhou and Xiamen. These routes are right near the flight paths that go to the
Taiwanese islands of Matsu and Kinmen. It’s an airline accident just waiting to happen.
Sorry. I meant to say it’s *another* airline accident just waiting to happen.
Why would China do something as stupid as that and risk civilian casualties?
Sorry. *More* civilian casualties.
Well, part of it is legal warfare.
It helps justify the narrative that Taiwan is already an “inalienable” part of China,
especially if civilian airlines end up crossing over Taiwanese airspace en route
to their destinations. It’s one thing for Chinese military aircraft to make incursions
into Taiwanese airspace, but it’s another if Chinese civilians do it on a daily basis.
It also puts a lot of pressure on Taiwan’s air defense capacity
by forcing Taiwan to keep track of more air traffic incursions.
But there could be a far more sinister plot at play here.
Remember, we’re talking about China,
an authoritarian regime that believes in military-civilian fusion.
And while I don’t mean human-tank hybrids, China would absolutely do this if they could.
You can bet that the CCP will use civilians as cover for an
irresponsible and outright dangerous Trojan Horse.
How? It’s possible that China could disguise a military aircraft as a civilian plane to seize
airports in Taiwan. Just fly along the route and then BAM! Go right in to invade Taiwan. A
flight route even just a nautical mile or two closer to Taiwan can make a huge difference.
Taiwanese officials are well aware of this. Former Taiwanese Air Force
Deputy Commanding General Chang Yen-ting warned that “It takes a warplane just 1
minute to fly 11 kilometers. So now we have 1 minute less of reaction time.”
The CCP could even get sneaky and just fly military aircraft under
legit civilian aircraft to fool surveillance.
That’s a real possibility that the CCP may be experimenting with.
And if you’re thinking, “Isn’t that dangerous for civilians?” China’s response is, “Yeah.
And?” They care about civilians about as much as bears care about hurting salmons’ feelings.
A good example of this is when there were reports last year of a PLA Y-9
plane flying under Flight CX366 on the M503 route,
the same route I mentioned that got moved closer to the median line.
Chang warned about that scenario, as well, saying,
“If three or five communist warplanes flew in formations in a vertical up-and-down position,
using civilian airliners as cover, we might be caught in a surprise attack as the warplanes
would be able to fly to Taipei and other major cities in just five to 10 minutes”.
I wouldn’t even put it past China to blame Taiwan for civilian casualties
if China goes ahead with a plan as dangerous as this.
Inch by inch, China is definitely changing up the status quo,
and that’s why the world can’t be complacent about it. It needs
to respond and make sure that China doesn’t get away with its shenanigans.
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