{"id":243685,"date":"2021-10-07T05:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=243685"},"modified":"2021-10-09T05:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T05:37:28","slug":"china-will-be-ready-for-a-full-scale-invasion-of-taiwan-by-2025-islands-defence-minister-says-after-huge-naval-drills-sparked-warning-that-world-war-iii-could-be-triggered-at-any-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=243685","title":{"rendered":"China will be ready for a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, island&#8217;s defence minister says after huge naval drills sparked warning that World War III could be triggered &#8216;at any time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail-image\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<div class=\"filename\" style=\"text-align: center;\">HMS Queen Elizabeth (2nd from the left) with US and Japanese naval vessels in drills near the Straits of Taiwan recently<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>China will be ready for a full-scale invasion of Taiwan within the next four years, defence minister has warned\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Beijing &#8216;has the capacity&#8217; to attack now, Chiu Kuo-cheng said, but is biding its time to minimise its losses\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chiu described tensions with China as &#8216;the most serious&#8217; in 40 years and warned of &#8216;misfire&#8217; in Taiwan Strait<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He spoke after Beijing&#8217;s sabre-rattling state media warned World War Three could be sparked &#8216;at any time&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>UK, US and Japan held naval exercise in the Philippine Sea at the weekend in a show of strength to Beijing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Pleasance, Ross Ibbetson and Chris Jewers \u2013 Mail Online Oct 6, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>China will be ready to mount a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, the island&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ben-wallace\/index.html\"><strong>defence minister<\/strong><\/a> has said in the starkest warning yet of all-out war with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Chiu Kuo-cheng, giving a speech to parliament today defending $8.6billion in new military spending, said Beijing &#8216;has the capacity&#8217; to attack immediately &#8211; but is looking to reduce the costs it must bear before giving the order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;By 2025, China will bring the cost and attrition to its lowest [point],&#8217; he said, adding that the current standoff is &#8216;the most serious&#8217; he has seen in 40 years with the risk of a &#8216;misfire&#8217; in the Taiwan Strait now very high.<\/p>\n<p>The dire warning came as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\"><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a> sought to reassure a nervous public &#8211; saying that he has spoken with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/xi-jinping\/index.html\"><strong>Xi Jinping<\/strong><\/a> and the pair have\u00a0 &#8216;agreed to abide by the Taiwan agreement&#8217; &#8211; though the call itself appears to be a month old and it was not immediately clear what agreement he was referring to.<\/p>\n<p>Since the call, China has dramatically stepped up its military operations around the island &#8211; flying 150 aircraft close-by at the weekend in a\u00a0huge show of force coinciding with its National Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Beijing&#8217;s mouthpiece media has been warning that it is &#8216;only a matter of time&#8217; before the island falls into their hands and that World War Three could be triggered &#8216;at any time&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s sabre-rattling has not gone unanswered, with Britain&#8217;s HMS Queen Elizabeth leading a huge naval exercise in the Philippine Sea at the weekend alongside US and Japanese aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10063831\/China-ready-scale-invasion-Taiwan-2025.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Comment \u2013 Oct 6, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>President Biden probably doesn\u2019t know what \u201cTaiwan agreement\u201d he was referring to either. An aide probably slipped him a briefing paper from which President Biden read, no doubt without any real comprehension of what he was saying.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the sort of president America now has. Obviously, in the grip of dementia, President Biden can\u2019t formulate policies or make decisions. He\u2019s just a front man for those behind the scenes who are really calling the shots. It\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess who they are but when it comes to foreign policy the Zionist lobby and weapons manufacturers probably have considerable influence.<\/p>\n<p>Neither have any interest in what\u2019s best for American voters.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, America is well on its way to becoming an occupied country now. Its elections are rigged and meaningless. Many of its political leaders are working at the behest of lobby groups and a ruling elite who hold ordinary Americans in contempt. While U.S. citizens are largely brainwashed by a mass media that is complicit in their subjugation.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are politically no better off than their counterparts in China. As far as the elite are concerned they are all entirely expendable. Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as Beijing is concerned, the timing depends on the likelihood of U.S. intervention. So it\u2019s no coincidence that Beijing\u2019s increasingly aggressive stance follows a calamitous U.S. withdrawal from Kabul. The American Empire is very obviously in decline and when the time is ripe, Beijing will strike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":243688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243685"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243735,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243685\/revisions\/243735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}