Vikrant Singh – MSN.com Oct 19, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping called this week for troops to strengthen their preparedness for war, state media reported on Saturday (Oct 19), just days after Beijing staged large-scale military drills around Taiwan.
Xi made his comments while visiting a brigade of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force on Thursday, according to state-run broadcaster CCTV.
Xi said the military should “comprehensively strengthen training and preparation for war, (and) ensure troops have solid combat capabilities”, CCTV reported.
Soldiers must “enhance their strategic deterrent and combat capability,” Xi said.
China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, has stepped up its shows of force around the self-ruled island in recent years.
On Monday, Beijing had deployed fighter jets, drones, warships and coast guard vessels to encircle Taiwan — its fourth round of large-scale war games around the democratic island in just over two years.
China’s communist leaders have insisted they will not rule out using force to bring Taiwan under Beijing’s control.
Xi on Thursday said the Chinese military must “strongly safeguard the country’s strategic security and core interests”, according to the CCTV report.
The dispute between China and Taiwan dates back to a civil war in which the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek were defeated by Mao Zedong’s communist fighters and fled to the island in 1949.
China and Taiwan have been ruled separately since then.
While this is for the domestic market, China is definitely preparing to storm Taiwan if things kick off in the Middle East, or UKraine.
Given that nearly 50% of Taiwanese voters support the Chinese position on Taiwan, it stands to reason that many Taiwanese troops will hold the same views, and won’t want to fight.
Today’s youtube video titles from the MSM say Zelensky is looking for a ceasefire when what he’s looking at is surrender. To claim otherwise is like saying when the allies marched into Berlin in 1945 the Nazis agreed to a ceasefire. And as part of the ceasefire they agreed to stand trial for their lives at Nuremburg.
excuse me mr ji ping
could i have your attention a minute
please can you bomb Carl Jones and his natzis ?
we would be so grateful
Thanks peter
Commie chinks can’t wait to put the kibosh on the white man.
I wonder how many biological male officers wear women’s panties and skirts in the Chinese military? Oh, wait, we already know the answer is zero, because they institutionalize or hang the barkingly deranged, as it should be.
Or drag them by their ankles through the streets of Beijing before they knock their teeth out by Mao’s little red book and hang them.
Please note that it is only a “Made in China” threat. 🙂