Business Insider
Date: March 27, 2018
By: Alex Lockie
- China has lived with Taiwan just miles off its shores as an existential threat to the ruling communist party for years, but lately rhetoric has heated up and China’s military has become more powerful.
- A cyberwarfare expert told Business Insider that China would likely kick off a fight to take Taiwan by attacking the US with a devastating cyber attack.
- This model follows how Russia took over Crimea in 2014, and most top military experts look at it as the future of warfare.
China’s has long lived with what it considers an existential threat just a few miles off its
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shores, the breakaway province of Taiwan, a democratically ruled island whose very existence scares China’s ruling communist party to its core.
But with President Donald Trump’s friendly approach to the island, and a new, pro-independence government in power in Taipei, China has been seen flexing its military muscle and talking tough about Taiwan in increasingly alarming ways. [FULL STORY]