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Major General Wang Haibin: I advocate putting Wutong Taiwan on the agenda as soon as possible
[Google auto-translate from China]
Author: Major General Wang Haiyun Chinese former ambassador to the Russian defense attache

[Weixin.qq] In 2001, on the issue of the reunification of Taiwan by force, I once insisted on "solid preparations and careful warfare." The main consideration at the time was that the army had just ended the "overtight days" mode, several major "killer skills" had not yet been formed, the weaponry was behind the US military by one or two generations, and the air combat equipment was not even as good as the Taiwan army, let alone the aircraft carrier formation. Even the positioning system depends on the US GPS. It can be said that air control and sea control are completely out of our hands. The long-range high-precision strike capability is seriously lacking. It is even more difficult to break through the strong fortification defense along the coast of Taiwan Island. Moreover, at that time, the Taiwan independence forces had not yet reached great hopes, and there was still hope for peaceful reunification. Sino-US relations were still in the "honeymoon period." Therefore, I strongly oppose blindly setting a "timetable" for the use of force to attack Taiwan, and I am even more opposed to any "thousand ships in a row" flower shelf that violates military laws. Because doing so is extremely irresponsible and brutal, it will undoubtedly fail, and it will even interrupt the progress of the rise of China.

Posted by: 3dc 2020-07-11
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