Dire Warnings For Taipei and Washington After U.S. Troops Reportedly Deployed to Taiwan!

BEIJING: Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin suggested Beijing could“launch a targeted air strike" to neutralise American assets on Taiwan, stressing that the U.S. presence would undermine relations between Washington and Beijing.

 “The U.S. wants to get on the mainland's nerves. This is a consistent tactic of Washington. The mainland must respond to the US' new provocations to make both Washington and the island of Taiwan fully realise the severity of their collusion", the times wrote.

 The presence of U.S. forces on Taiwan is hardly unprecedented, with American special forces having begun training Taipei’s forces for at least two years in more temporary deployments. The balance of power across the Taiwan Strait has increasingly favoured Beijing over the last three decades, with the mainland’s Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) expected to be able to take the entire territory of Taiwan within a week.

 Tensions come as the PLA has deployed new assets near the Taiwan Strait, most recently new J-16D electronic attack jets specialised in neutralising enemy ground based radar and air defence sites the latter which Taiwan relies on particularly heavily to compensate for the limited capabilities of its combat aviation