As PLA warplanes broke records for two consecutive days with a total of 28 sorties into Taiwan‘s southwest air defense identification zone, Legislative Yuan President You Xi-kun on Monday (25) called on the U.S. government to take greater action to stop Beijing‘s provocative actions. Former Air Force Deputy Commander Zhang Yanting believes the PLA’s actions are a test of the Biden administration’s attitude toward the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, and as the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its centennial this year, it is expected to step up this military intimidation tactic as a report card.
PLA warplanes entered Taiwan’s southwest airspace Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on the 23rd and sent another 15 sorties around Taiwan on the 24th, breaking the record of mainland military aircraft entering Taiwan’s southwest airspace in recent years. On the 23rd alone, Taiwan’s Air Force flew 15 batches of 30 warplanes to monitor the area, broadcasting and dispersing them, as well as tracking and monitoring them with anti-aircraft missiles.
The president of the legislature, Yu Xi-kun, said on Monday that Taiwan does not like to see or hope for a conflict between China and the United States, and hopes that peace and stability can be maintained in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. The mainland has been moving a lot recently because of the new presidency of U.S. President Joe Biden, and the Chinese Communist Party has stepped up provocations to test the U.S. attitude.
The Biden Administration is very concerned, and they are still increasing their provocative actions, so it is clear that they are testing the attitude of the United States. So I would like to take this opportunity to call on the Chinese Communist Party to be rational, and to thank the U.S. side for being so concerned about Taiwan’s security. I also call on the U.S. to take greater action to stop such provocations by the Chinese Communist Party in the future.
Former Air Force deputy commander Zhang Yanting said the PLA’s action is to test the new Biden administration’s support for Taiwan and the force of Taiwan Strait intervention.
Zhang said: test his new president, and the new U.S. Secretary of Defense after taking office, and the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait issues will have what kind of response. The first stone to ask the road, first test a wind direction, to military activities as a door knocker to see the U.S. response. Will the U.S. react with high intensity, or will it act with a low profile to make the CCP’s subsequent military considerations. In principle, the Chinese Communist Party will also oppress Taiwan by force, and I believe that he will be more aggressive in 2021, and his activities in this area may be stronger than in 2020. As of today, we (the Air Force) have broadcast 69 repulsions (of communist aircraft), and they will increase, and the number of sorties will be much higher than in January of last year.
Some Taiwanese scholars predict that military pressure on Taiwan will decrease as Biden comes to power and the U.S. and China increase their contacts, but Zhang Yanting believes the opposite is true, predicting that the number of PLA aircraft circling Taiwan this year will continue to break records.
Zhang Yanting said: 2021 is the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, he will have some mission, to deliver some report card, he may want to have some results, in the Chinese Communist Party’s so-called political path to unification, he wants to deliver some report card. In the military, the military is a political tool, and he uses it as a political tool to make a statement, and the CCP has always emphasized that the barrel of a gun makes power. After the military pressure is over, there will be “peaceful reunification” and “military reunification”, if he can achieve “peaceful reunification”, it will be exactly what he wants, if not, he will have “military reunification “The “armed reunification” is a high-intensity military action, or a low-intensity military attack are possible.
For the 23rd PLA aircraft around Taiwan, the U.S. State Department issued a statement, KMT legislator Chen Yixin pointed out that the Taiwan side deliberately ignored part of the statement focus.
Chen Yixin said that in the statement, the U.S. urged “meaningful dialogue” between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, which is another official statement from the U.S. State Department urging cross-strait dialogue since August 31, 2018, after a gap of more than two years and four months, and shows that the Biden administration’s Taiwan Strait policy will return from the confrontational line of the late Trump administration to the dialogue line of the Obama administration, with the restoration of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait as the keynote.
Chen Yixin believes that the statement does not mention the “one-China Policy“, but emphasizes the “one law and three communiqués and six guarantees”, which is the same as changing the Soup but not the Medicine. At the same Time, the statement did not mention other lip service to Taiwan-friendly bills, which is also an interesting observation indicator.
Taiwan media reported that the Taiwan Air Force Command has allocated more than 800 million NTD to expand the living and office buildings at the Magong Air Base in Penghu, which is expected to be completed in three years and can accommodate 575 officers and soldiers throughout the year and carry out troop training and maintenance tasks; and to expand the hangars and plants of warplanes to cope with the operations of PLA military aircraft. The Air Force Command has also allocated more than 100 million NTD to expand the Go-Luan-Bi camp building in Pingtung and improve the naval accommodation facilities and radar station, which will be completed in the year after next.
In addition, for two consecutive days of provocative actions by PLA warplanes, mainland media analysis said that it is a warning to the Taiwan authorities that the mainland’s policy toward Taiwan is unlikely to see any change due to the change in the U.S. administration.
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