{"id":12127,"date":"2023-11-10T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/top-us-military-official-doubts-china-wants-to-invade-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:24:11","slug":"top-us-military-official-doubts-china-wants-to-invade-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=12127","title":{"rendered":"Top US military official doubts China wants to invade Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=64c5862f-b4a8-465c-813f-585d0207ab8d\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US\u2019s most senior military official has expressed doubt that China wants to invade Taiwan, toning down rhetoric about the risk of war that has unsettled other countries in the region as well as investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that [Chinese president] Xi Jinping doesn\u2019t actually want to take Taiwan by force. He will try to use other ways to do this,\u201d General Charles Brown, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, told reporters in Tokyo. <\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the difficulty of the beach landing required to bring invasion troops to Taiwan, he said the US and its allies needed to pay attention to other efforts by the Chinese leader to increase pressure on the country \u201cwhether it\u2019s militarily, diplomatically, economically\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s remarks came as Washington and Beijing are trying to manage the growing tensions in their relationship by restarting dialogue. US president Joe Biden and Xi are expected to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (Apec) in San Francisco next week \u2014 only their second meeting as leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s remarks contrast with warnings from other military and security officials over the past two and a half years about a potential conflict over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Philip Davidson, then head of US forces in the Pacific, said in March 2021 that China could take military action against Taiwan by 2027. His successor, Admiral John Aquilino, said the same month that the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan was \u201ccloser than most think\u201d. Last year, Avril Haines, director of national intelligence, said Taiwan faced an \u201cacute\u201d threat from China before 2030.<\/p>\n<p>China claims the island as part of its territory and has threatened to attack if Taipei resists unification indefinitely or external forces intervene. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years, the People\u2019s Liberation Army has increased manoeuvres around Taiwan, combining a military intimidation campaign with exercises honing the skills it needs for increasingly sophisticated operations. <\/p>\n<p>Beijing has also said it prefers to resolve tensions with Taiwan peacefully, and is employing a range of other tactics including trade barriers and disinformation campaigns to undermine the country\u2019s de facto independence. <\/p>\n<p>While foreign policy and economic officials have had some talks, communication between military leaders has remained suspended since Beijing cut it in response to then US House speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s visit to Taiwan in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s an opportunity and\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009as the president meets with Xi next week we\u2019ll get an indication that there is some interest [in re-establishing military communications channels],\u201d Brown said. \u201cI realise that there\u2019s been other levels of communication across the diplomatic [sic] or through Commerce and the Treasury, but this is the one that we haven\u2019t had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that when he started as chair of the joint chiefs early last month, he had written a letter to his counterpart, General Liu Zhenli, chief of staff of the PLA\u2019s joint staff department, introducing himself and saying he was \u201cwilling to open a line of communication\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Both Chinese and western military officials have been stepping up warnings about the risk of an accident in the air or at sea as Chinese and US forces challenge each other in the region. The Pentagon last month accused the PLA of conducting hundreds of \u201ccoercive and risky\u201d intercepts of military flights of the US and its allies during the past two years, and released pictures and video footage of several.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Leo Lewis in Tokyo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/64c5862f-b4a8-465c-813f-585d0207ab8d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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