Will China follow big talk with invasion of Taiwan?

What could deter an attack? The certainty that even if the United States could not intervene militarily in time to save Taiwan, it would certainly institute a complete naval blockade of China immediately afterwards.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s exchange of words over the weekend were a threat and a responding declaration of resolve, respectively. Flickr photographs by Thierry Ehrmann

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 11, 2021

China’s President Xi Jinping promised on Oct. 9 that, “The historical task of the complete reunification of the motherland ... will definitely be fulfilled.” That was a threat to Taiwan, but a threat without a deadline. However Chinese state media, in the form of the ever-rabid Global Time...

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