Posted 1/3/2024, 10:14:00 AM
Xi's Taiwan Obsession Drives Risk of Disaster
- Xi Jinping sees assimilating Taiwan into China as central to his goal of "rejuvenating the Chinese nation" and restoring China's global dominance
- Taiwan's democracy and autonomy directly challenge Xi and the CCP's authoritarian control and claims to legitimacy
- China has built up military capabilities possibly aimed at invading Taiwan by 2027, testing whether the West will defend Taiwan
- An invasion of Taiwan would be disastrous economically and loss of life, but Xi may subordinate those concerns to his dream of supremacy
- Democratic Taiwan thriving proves the CCP's claim to power is illegitimate; that's why Xi seeks obsessively to extinguish Taiwan's model