The Taiwan Question: Global Stability or Regional Conflict?

 

Chinese Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng issued a  warning at a recent news appearance, saying that "Taiwan Independence is tantamount to war."  

Jing made it clear that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would never allow Taiwan to be separated from China China. He also justified China’s military strategies around Taiwan as necessary to suppress secessionist activities and deter external interference with upgraded military capacity and resolve.

And  warned that the Taiwan question is the most sensitive and critical issue in China-US relations, underscoring the US’s previous commitments to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan, revoke the mutual defense treaty, and withdraw military forces from the island.