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China is readying forces that could seize Taiwan in a future attack, analysts and officials say. Any military operation is likely to rely partly on China's militarized police.
The race for an edge in military technology has shaped US-China relations amid growing US concerns about a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the coming years.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and his deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks have described China as a "pacing threat" to the United States. [2] Before the creation of the China task force, the US military conducted maneuvers in the South China sea using two aircraft carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. [6]
China, long identified as the Pentagon's "pacing challenge," has flexed new military capabilities, increased pressure on US allies and partners, and engaged in hybrid warfare in cyberspace.
The position of the United States, as clarified in the China/Taiwan: Evolution of the "One China" Policy report of the Congressional Research Service (date: 9 July 2007) is summed up in five points: The United States did not explicitly state the sovereign status of Taiwan in the three US-PRC Joint Communiqués of 1972, 1979, and 1982.
The de facto U.S. embassy in Taiwan said on Thursday that Chinese military activity in the region is currently elevated but it did not see that wider activity as a response to President Lai Ching ...
The China Military Power Report (abbr. CMPR), officially the Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China, is an annual report produced by the United States Department of Defense for the United States Congress that provides estimates, forecasts, and analysis of the People's Republic of China (PRC) military and security developments for the previous year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. military officials met their Chinese counterparts earlier this week for a series of meetings in Hawaii focused on how the two countries can operate safely, U.S ...