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Chinese nuclear fighters on Taiwan: it is the reply to the Indo-Pacific pacts

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BEIJING – What better way to celebrate 72 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China than to send 58 fighters flying over the Taiwan air defense zone, the “rebel province” beyond the Strait of Formosa? The one that took place between Friday and Saturday raises the bar compared to previous raids: never before have so many Liberation Army planes taken off near the island (including bombers with H-6 nuclear capability) in the lap of so few hours. And never had there been such frequent exercises as in the last few weeks.

This year we are already at 500 vehicles: against 380 last year, which was already a record. The reason has a name: indeed, two acronyms. The Aukus, the new pact between the US, the UK and Australia, and the Quad – the alliance between Washington, Canberra, New Delhi and Tokyo – with only one goal: to contain Beijing’s advance in the Indo-Pacific. China, on its national holiday, then makes it clear that Taiwan is “its stuff”: to be reunified at all costs. If necessary, even by force. Thus responding, too, to those “sinister designs” of Great Britain that a few days ago sent a warship into the Strait.

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A political message addressed both to London and to Washington, the historical rival and main supporter of the democratic Taipei, which translated goes like this: do not meddle in our internal affairs. After all, regaining control of the island is one of the objectives that Xi Jinping he gave himself in view of 2049 when the country will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic, to become “prosperous and powerful”. “Bullying that damages peace”, Taiwanese Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang replied yesterday, adding: “The world and the international community strongly reject such behavior.”

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Historical, geostrategic and economic reasons are the basis of the Chinese rhetoric of annexation. In Taiwan, two months after the Communists’ victory in 1949, the nationalists took refuge and continued to govern the Republic of China. And then “resolving the question and achieving reunification is an unshakable commitment of the Party”, as he said on 1 July Xi, on the occasion of the centenary of the CCP. “Nobody can question China’s territorial integrity.”

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But the open fronts with Beijing that worry the West are also geopolitical: the claims on the islands of the East China Sea, the nine-point line further south – where Beijing says it controls 80% of the waters, rich in oil fields ( 11 billion barrels of oil) – up to the “first chain of islands” which is the one that “imprisons” the dreams of the Dragon’s power. This is why Taiwan is so important: the reconquest would give the possibility to breach this chain and from there project all its strength towards the great oceans. Finally, semiconductors, which are so useful in Beijing and which are Taiwan’s flagship of the national industry: a fundamental piece of the technological – and therefore military and economic – challenge between the US and China.

For years the island has been preparing to defend itself from a possible invasion, also thanks to the weapons bought by the Americans, putting 24 billion dollars on the plate in 2021 (crumbs, however, compared to over 200 in Beijing). Many experts rule out military intervention: it would not be convenient for China. But the rhetoric of “reunification at all costs” is getting stronger and exercises in the sky more and more frequent.

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