What China’s Military Exercises Reveal About Its Taiwan Strategy | WSJ

Chinese state media videos and a map of live-fire exercises around Taiwan have displayed Beijing’s strategy to impose an aerial and maritime blockade on the island. Here’s how China could threaten both Taiwan and global trade in case of a military conflict.

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[raultiangson]

This situation is fluid and has many moving parts Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst I hope cooler heads will prevail in the end on this.

[directxxxx]

“The Chinese are not like us, they consider force as the LAST resort, but once they decide to use force, they will go all the way everything they can.”
Col MacGregor

[frankfeng]

Not sure about China's strategy. The US strategy is to fight China to the last Taiwanese.

[sudiptokumar]

At the same time @chinese foreign secretary on india srilanka China conflict on advanced surveillance ship, says that china is committed to free shipping lane

[tsmullaney]

“National History Day 2022 Best Student Documentary” here, hands down. Great work.

[Okiescrapper]

countries need to try to set up manufacturing of the things they need now while there is time. if it's not already too late.

[AnunnakisVEVO]

My only question is why did you blurry out some of the clips ? One with the jet missiles and the other with the jets initials. Suspicious

[zachburch]

@1:23 is that a weather station on the rail? What ship is this?

[xXColdHandsXx]

_”Never get involved in a land war in Asia”_ is a common saying in warfare. There must be a good reason for that.

[willsjaime]

OK, so now that we understand China's strategy, can someone please explain Pelosi's strategy?

[oweona]

It seen to be their target is an aircraft carrier, so they launch missiles from the mainland to the sea, testing the fire range

[greattime]

The most heartless thing the Chinese could do
was exactly what they did sending Pelosi back to the US.
That was just mean.

[alanclw]

How about understanding what the heck our leaders' plan for Taiwan are instead of trying to "explain" what China's plan could possibly be.

[lancelotf.x]

understanding of history will be much helpful when digest this sort of info.

[B_Keat]

I hope we gathered a lot of information on their capabilities.

[anp]

This reminds me of the fight between python and porcupine.

[nathanngumi]

The drumbeats of war are audible though faint for now... WWI and WWII both began by such flexing.

[curtiscarpenter]

All men can see the tactics by which I conquer but none can see the victory out of which victory is evolved. Sun Tzu Art of war.

[deveshkumarsingh]

Well I would suggest you to zoom out a bit and you can easily see Malacca strait and Sunda strait.
You know its significance for the world.

[CJIG]

Military drills is not combat, the enemy is not shooting back.