Sino-Taiwan War Hard to Happen Analyst Says
Analysts wanted to temper fears of simmering tensions in the Taiwan Strait,
while speaking at a conference in Taipei about recent developments between
Taiwan and China.
Tien Hung-mao, chairman of Taiwan's National Policy Research Institute,
said China had not even come up with a formula on how to resolve political
resistance in Taiwan after winning a potential war, a sign for him that a
military conflict was not imminent.
"It's also just a military exercise, they have nowhere else to do the
exercises," Tien added. "Except for the first island chain,
everything else is more or less controlled by the United States."
China's air force carried out four consecutive days of attacks on Taiwan's
air defense identification zone (ADIZ) starting Oct. 1, involving nearly 150
aircraft, although those missions have died down. Only three aircraft were
reported to have entered the ADIZ on Sunday (10 October), Taiwan's national
day.
