Beijing now has the world’s largest navy of 250,000 sailors and 355 warships that it can focus on Taiwan should it choose to do so, but it is important to note that half its tonnage is in smaller ships. (Photo: United States Navy)
Beijing now has the world’s largest navy of 250,000 sailors and 355 warships that it can focus on Taiwan should it choose to do so, but it is important to note that half its tonnage is in smaller ships. (Photo: United States Navy)
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Writer Joe Varner sees three options for the mainland to impose its will on Taiwan. They include, but aren’t limited to, a nuclear, a conventional and an unconventional or hybrid approach. (Photo: © Bumbleedee | Dreamstime.com)
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Beijing now has the world’s largest navy of 250,000 sailors and 355 warships that it can focus on Taiwan should it choose to do so, but it is important to note that half its tonnage is in smaller ships. (Photo: United States Navy)
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China has the world’s largest military machine of more than two million troops that might be turned on Taiwan at any time and with little warning. (Photo: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
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The Taiwanese military is geared to defend Taiwan and its offshore possessions until the U.S. and allied naval and military forces arrive to relieve the pressure of a Chinese assault. (Photo: Xuanshisheng)
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In happier times, U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Taiwanese president Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei in June 1960. (Photo: Reuters upi)
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Taipei’s navy has 40,000 regular and 67,000 reserve sailors and an aging fleet of 4 submarines, 26 destroyers, 22 frigates, 44 coastal defence fast attack craft and 10,000 marines. (Photo: r. arvin)
