Despite its proximity to Taiwan, there is “absolutely nothing easy about a [Chinese] invasion of Taiwan,” a US Army general said Tuesday.
, it would face an uphill battle before even setting foot on the island roughly 100 miles away from its southeastern coast, a US Army general explained Tuesday.
Applied to Taiwan, that tip-off would trigger the US to begin countermeasures and readying defense forces, the general said.
“They would encounter an island that has very few beaches where you could land craft on, mountainous terrain and a population that we believe that would be willing to fight,” he said. “They’d be hitting cities like Taipei with about 7 million people — that’s twice the size of Los Angeles.” A Taiwanese ship monitoring a Chinese aircraft carrier off the coast of the island on September 11, 2023.“Geographically, Taiwan’s shipping lanes are the arteries of global commerce with half of the world’s trade going through the Taiwan Strait every year,” she told the committee. “Any disruption would be acutely felt around the world, threatening more than 180,000 American jobs and snarling critical supply chains from Alabama to Washington and beyond.
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