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China Pushes and Shoves
May 19,
2008: Taiwan has accused China of increasing its military activity in the 180
kilometers straits that separate Taiwan from China. In the last ten years,
China has gone from a little over 400 fighter sorties over the straits each
year, to nearly 2,000. In the last three years, there have been twenty
instances of Chinese spy ships moving into Taiwans territorial waters. There
has been more Chinese submarine activity around Taiwan, although, the Taiwanese
would not give any specifics on this. The Taiwanese believe the Chinese are
testing Taiwanese defenses regularly and more intensively, as well as giving
their pilots and crews vital training. This would be a necessary prelude to an
attack on the island nation. It's also a useful method of applying political
and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan, which is a democracy, and has many citizens
who support closer political relationships with China, not a declaration of
independence.
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