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Taiwan and the SCS/WPS; re-titled merged threads
Topic Started: Jun 28 2012, 06:47 PM (4,510 Views)
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A wolf in sheep's clothing. Beware!!
Edited by icefrog, Sep 4 2012, 01:33 PM.
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Good thing we are not anymore considering the F-16. After block 50/52, presume the F-16V (with AESA radar) is also now compromised

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Taiwan MPs visit Spratlys as garrison stages drill

Three Taiwanese legislators flew to a hotly-contested island in the South China Sea Tuesday as garrison forces there held a live-fire drill, officials said, risking stirring up new tensions in the area.

The lawmakers left an airbase in the south of Taiwan at around 7:00 am (2300 GMT Monday) on board a C-130 transport plane, arriving at Taiping, the biggest islet in the Spratlys, three-and-a-half hours later.

"The group observed a live-fire drill conducted by the coastguards," Hsieh Chin-chin, a coastguard spokesman, told AFP.

Two of the lawmakers were from the ruling Kuomintang party, and the third from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party.
The Spratlys are a group of islands claimed entirely or in part by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei.
They are believed to lie on top of major energy resources and sit near a number of important trading routes.

The Spratlys, and the South China Sea as a whole, have been at the centre of a series of escalating diplomatic rows between countries with overlapping territorial claims.

In July Taiwan boosted its artillery and mortar weapons on Taiping, and last week its security chief and the interior minister visited the islet, in moves that angered Vietnam.

Despite warnings by other claimants, some right-wing Taiwanese politicians have been pressing the government to reinforce the garrison, urging it to replace the existing coastguard detachment with an elite marine unit.

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/taiwan-mps-visit-spratlys-garrison-stages-drill-070132476.html
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NOTE: Updated, re-titled thread. Please scroll down for the latest update.

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Taiwanese Coast Guard mortar crew shows mortar firing sequence to visiting politicians.

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A Taiwanese Special Forces operator guards the transport aircraft that brought the politicians to Taiping Island.

Edited by MSantor, Apr 29 2014, 05:03 AM.
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/09/13/12/taiwan-criticizes-ph-renaming-disputed-waters

TAIPEI - Taiwan on Thursday criticized the Philippines for naming South China Sea waters off its west coast the "West Philippine Sea" despite rival sovereignty claims.

Taiwan "does not recognize this unilateral move that will provoke disputes and sternly reaffirms its territorial claim" to the South China Sea, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"We urge neighboring countries to exercise self-restraint and avoid any unilateral moves that will affect peace and stability in the region, instead replacing confrontation with dialogue," it said.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Wednesday his government would register the new name with the United Nations as part of efforts to delineate its sovereign territory, a move that could further raise tensions with China.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, even waters approaching the coasts of other countries.

Ships from China and the Philippines engaged in a stand-off at Scarborough Shoal, a tiny group of islands in the sea, earlier this year, and the Philippines says Chinese vessels remain there.

Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam also claim all or part of the Spratly Islands -- an area in the South China Sea thought to contain large oil reserves.

The rival claims have long made the South China Sea one of Asia's potential military flashpoints, and tensions have escalated over the past year.
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Taiwan just showed their true allegiance. They've also joined-in by sending 2 CG ships to Senkaku as well.

Taiwan sends 2 coast guard ships to patrol near disputed islands
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/taiwan-sends-2-coast-guard-ships-to-patrol-near-disputed-islands

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Two Taiwanese coast guard ships on Thursday set sail for waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea, officials said, amid an ongoing territorial row among Taiwan, China and Japan.

The vessels are expected to get around 20 to 30 nautical miles (37 to 56 kilometers) west of the disputed Diaoyu islands to offer round-the-clock protection for Taiwanese fishermen, said a coast guard official.

The move came after Japan announced on Tuesday that it had completed its planned purchase of the islands, which are known as Senkaku in Japanese and are also claimed by Taiwan and China.

Taipei has recalled its envoy to Japan to protest the Japanese move while Beijing has dispatched two patrol ships to assert its sovereignty following the purchase.

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Besides from WPS, Philippines should also be watching our neighbors at our north and south. Trust no one.
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As I have said before: Taiwan is not to be trusted: the claims made by the ChiCom are based on the Nationalist Chinese claims from the time before the Communists overran the Chinese mainland.
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Can Hu ‘Do Something Big’ on Taiwan?

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Chinese President Hu Jintao was met with heavy protests on his July 1 visit to Hong Kong to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Britain’s handover of the former colony to Chinese rule. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets to lament that the sacred political gap between Hong Kong, now a Special Administrative Region (SAR), and Communist China was closing. The backlash against China in the SAR even has a sociological component where opinion surveys indicate that more and more residents identify themselves as “Hongkongers,” rather than Chinese.

However shocking and unpleasant these developments may seem, Hu Jintao nonetheless considers the Sino-Anglo agreement that returned Hong Kong to China to be a very important and time-honored legacy of late leader Deng Xiaoping. In a similar vein, President Hu wants to "do something big " on Taiwan, according to a cable from the American Embassy in Beijing that was leaked by WikiLeaks. In other words, Hu may want to emulate Deng’s success and legacy in Hong Kong by scoring a breakthrough on Taiwan.

Accordingly, Hu has set up a committee staffed by China's leading experts to create a "new way forward" on Taiwan's unification with China. Under President Jiang Zemin, Hu's predecessor, Beijing's default strategy toward Taiwan was to threaten the use of force. However, this aggressive behavior was counterproductive and often attracted intervention by the United States, which has maintained a protective security relationship with Taiwan as mandated by the United States’ “Taiwan Relations Act.”


http://thediplomat.com/china-power/can-hu-do-something-big-on-taiwan/
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Chinese Taiwan 'grab' threatens global security

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No date has been set, but Taiwan's return to Chinese rule is becoming somewhat of a safe bet – with huge implications for global security, reports Francesco Guarascio from Taipei

MaoTse-tung used to say that China could "do without" Taiwan for 100 years, but eventually the leaf-shaped island off the coast of South China would return to the motherland; even if this required the use of force. The recent strategy of Beijing toward the rebellious republic has not wavered, although the issue is now handled with improved subtlety. The threat of military intervention has never receded, but the favoured policy is now to retake the island by stealth rather than force.

China's strength in this endeavour is its impressive growth. When the economic differences between the mainland and Taiwan are gone, the argument to maintain the separate rule will lose ground. This is the same strategy that Beijing applied to Hong Kong, which was returned to China in 1997 by the United Kingdom but is set to enjoy a special status for the first 50 years after the handover. China's main ally in this potentially dangerous embrace is Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou, a man strengthened by his re-election for a second four-year mandate. During his first term, he pursued a policy of engagement with China. This produces considerable economic benefits, but risks driving Taiwan into a political cul-de-sac where the only option is to eventually rejoin China.


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The first victory of Ma in 2008 was therefore a success for Beijing and his re-election opens the way for a new phase of even closer relations. A few weeks ago, a top KMT official introduced the new motto of 'one country – two areas' to describe Taiwan's relations with mainland China. The formula clearly resembles the "one country – two systems' adopted for Hong Kong - which is meant to lead the former British territory towards full Chinese rule by mid-century. Ma has reiterated his support for this formula in his inauguration speech last week.

The ceremony even played host to a new flag. The small blue rectangle which is at the top corner of Taiwan's current red flag was enlarged in the new flag as to create two strips of equal size with the Taiwanese star in the middle. It is not an exaggeration to interpret it as a visual representation of the 'one country – two areas' formula. As a European diplomat in Taipei admits: "The return of Taiwan to China is only a matter of time."

There is much more at stake than the future of the only democratic state ever run by Chinese. Also on the table is the security of the entire planet, at a time when the role of the United States as a hegemonic super power is challenged by China's growing ambition. Should China manage to bring Taiwan back under its control, Washington's security hold in the Asia-Pacific region will be at risk. The loss of 'the unsinkable aircraft carrier' will surely have very serious consequences.

Europe's security has already been affected by these geopolitical moves as Washington has begun to reposition its military might from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The economic ties between the US and China are much too strong for there to be talk of an emerging cold war between them, but the possible end of the six-decade status quo in Taiwan may be the shift that changes the delicate balance of power. Then, perhaps, the world will return to talk of the too often forgotten Taiwan dispute.


Read more: http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1985/chinese-taiwan-grab-threatens-global-security#ixzz26TzW5drT
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