Hostile Chinese President was warned by 'The West', potential Taiwan invasion would be a "mistake".
Taipei, Sunday,
On the surface. business is brisk in Taiwan's bustling capital. The new metro whirrs efficiently from stop to stop, the traffic police in their white uniforms briskly direct streams of bustling black cars.
But behind the veneer of normality, is a growing sense of apprehension and dread.
Recent months have seen an uptick in warmongering rhetoric from Beijing matched by intensifying air force and naval activity around the island just 175km off the Chinese coast.
Today, very real threats from Taiwan's hostile superpower neighbor cannot be ignored.
Western concern grows
The daily screech of jets has alarmed the United States and Japan, prompting Washington to warn China:
"It would be a serious mistake to take Taiwan by force."
Joseph Wu (66), Taiwan's foreign minister noted that:
"Our government is happy to see that the United States and Japan are concerned about the current situation."
Concern is fuelled by increasingly aggressive Chinese action in the region.
• In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protests have been driven underground by government security laws that effectively criminalize dissent.
• In Pakistan, serious disagreements have surfaced between the two countries over the Belt and Road Initiative project and special economic zones.
• In Kyrgyzstan, decades-old tensions that started with a disagreement on border issues have been fuelled by mass discontent in the economic and social spheres and fed into an existing power struggle.
• In Kyrgyzstan, decades-old tensions that started with a disagreement on border issues have been fuelled by mass discontent in the economic and social spheres and fed into an existing power struggle.
However, of all the flashpoints in the region, Taiwan is considered the most dangerous. Currently, invasion could take place at "any time" say experts.
"Thundering typhoons" Taiwan's earthquake threat
Due to its frequent earthquakes, steep slopes, weak geological formation, soils subject to erosion and thundering downpours of rain, several kinds of natural hazards such as typhoons, flooding, landslide and sinkholes regularly torment Asia's "Isle of Avalon".
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