Global Times editor Hu Xijn tweeted a Military Review article which called for the U.S. to look at basing ground troops on the island.
"If Chinese forces can prevent U.S. forces from responding reflexively or immediately to PLA aggression, the United States will either accede to a quick PLA victory in a Taiwanese-mainland China conflict or be forced to wage a long, costly campaign to re-establish access to Taiwan with a far from certain outcome," Mills wrote.
"Once they take the step of returning U.S. forces to Taiwan, the PLA will definitely start a just war to safeguard China's territorial integrity. China's Anti-Secession Law is a tiger with teeth," Hu added, referring to the law ratified in 2005 which formalizes Beijing's intentions to act if Taiwan declared independence.to back off after Beijing conducted large military drills and sent fighter jets over the midway point of the strategic Taiwan Strait.
Two U.S.-made AH-64E Apache attack helicopters in the annual Han Kuang military drills in Taichung on July 16. Tensions have been growing in the Taiwan Strait after Beijing conducted large military drills there.Taiwan's defense ministry condemned what it called"harassment and threats" from the mainland, where the CCP wants to absorb the democratic island under its"One China" policy. Under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, the U.S.
"I will not dismiss Hu Xijin's tweet. If the U.S. indeed deploys troops in Taiwan, it will be a sea change in U.S.-China relations and a trigger for U.S.-China military conflict," said Zhiqun Zhu, author of"From Beijing's perspective, it will destroy the very foundation of PRC-U.S relations and violate the Anti-Secession Law, which will be a cause for war," he told
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