Global Challenges: China's Menacing 'Panda Hug' to Taiwan | CNN

Taiwan warns: China would be ready for invasion in 2025 2:51

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China carries out military landing exercises and sends more than 150 warplanes, also with nuclear capabilities, to the area of ​​Taiwan, an island that they consider an inseparable part of their nation.

For its part, the Taiwan Army conducts drills to prepare for a possible invasion.

In the United States the alarm went off.

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The armies seem to be preparing for the worst.

China carries out military landing exercises and sends more than 150 warplanes, also with nuclear capabilities, to the area of ​​Taiwan, an island that they consider an inseparable part of their nation.

For its part, the Taiwan Army conducts drills to prepare for a possible invasion.

Tension between China and Taiwan worries the world 2:45

In the United States the alarm went off.

There is talk of the main international challenge facing President Joe Biden, and his naval forces are conducting maneuvers with his allies.

In addition, it was announced that Australia will invest in nuclear submarines and Japan sent missiles and troops to protect its islands near Taiwan.

Meanwhile, although Chinese President Xi Jinping said emphatically, and I quote him, "of course reunification with Taiwan will be achieved," on this island they assure that it is democracy in the world, neither more nor less, that would be now in danger.

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If with Russia in Crimea or earlier, with the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, their opponents talked about how to deal with, they said, "bear hug" referring to Moscow, in the case of China it would be more of a "panda hug" , the so popular bear in that nation.

And it is that China claims to embrace and do everything for the good of Taiwan.

According to President Xi, any independence would be disastrous for the island's inhabitants.

At the same time, he warned that those who forget their heritage, betray their homeland, that they do not end well and that they will end up being humiliated by history.

While Xi now says that reunification will be peaceful, there are recollections of how in the recent past he did not rule out that the use of force might be necessary.

Claims that cause chills in Taiwan where its president Tsai Ing-wen took advantage of a totally unusual parade of her troops in Taipei to warn that they will not bow and that they are determined to defend themselves.

According to the official, no one will be able to force them to follow the path set by China, which, she says, would mean the end of freedom and democracy on the island.

China could use military force to control Taiwan 1:57

In fact, analysts believe that it was precisely the turnaround that President Tsai's victory at the polls and her clearly pro-independence ideologies meant that outraged China and perhaps led to current measures.

And if in Beijing they propose the model of "one nation, two systems", which was also the one promised for Hong Kong, in Taipei they assure that what happened in Hong Kong is that, in the end, China crushed democracy and they do not want that. be repeated on your island.

And if President Tsai assures that her territory is now the one that represents the struggle for democracy, others warn that, to defend democracy, not only on her island but on a global level, it is necessary that the world first stop what they claim would be an expansionist strategy of Chinese authoritarianism and defend democracy in Taiwan.

That is why many speak of the main challenge now facing US President Joe Biden.

Eventually, they will have to decide how far to support Taiwan, and risk a gruesome war with China that few in the United States would want.

Or, on the other hand, not to do so and to allow the influence of China to increase in the world.

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