It is not clear whether Xi Jinping is receiving rational advice about Taiwan: Easton
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/11
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
China’s Navy performing drills. (By Associated Press)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Considering China’s recent aggressive moves, the communist country might try and provoke a crisis during which it would occupy Taiwan’s offshore islands, an expert in the United States told Indian media.
Taiwan counts two island groups, Kinmen and Matsu, within reach of the Chinese province of Fujian. They were bombed by communist forces as far as into the 1950s, the decade after the Kuomintang left China and moved to Taiwan.
However, Ian Easton of the Project 2049 Institute told India’s ANI that China might even start further afield, attacking Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba, in the South China Sea. “It’s already surrounded on three sides by massive military or civil-military facilities constructed on the many islands,” ANI quoted Easton.
Another possible target could be the Pratas Islands, also in the South China Sea but about 300 kilometers south of Hong Kong, or Kinmen or Matsu.
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