Analysis: Taiwan is becoming a battleground for influence between China and the United States
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Taiwan is becoming a hotbed of competition between China and the United States, the world's largest nuclear power and the world's second-largest economy.
From 2017 to the present, tensions between China and Taiwan between China and the United States have escalated, with China trying to put military pressure on the island while the United States tries to provide arms. To this island.
As of October 2021, the United States has sold more than $ 500 billion worth of weapons to Taiwan, including fighter jets, warships, tanks, ballistic missiles and artillery. Taiwan's military to counter China's growing military influence.
The United States not only sells arms to Taiwan, the superpower also sent a parliamentary delegation to Taiwan, much to China's outrage.
As the United States seeks to strengthen Taiwan's military capabilities by selling weapons to the island, China is also putting more military pressure on Taiwan by sending fighter jets into the island airspace. Taiwan sent warships to the waters near the island, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army also held military exercises in waters near the island, increasing military pressure.
According to the US Pentagon, since 2018, China has deployed more than 2,000 ballistic missiles in coastal provinces, and some of them have been aimed at Taiwan.
Pentagon officials say more than 2,000 Chinese missiles deployed along the coast could not only strike Taiwan, but also the United States military or navy. The United States also enters Taiwanese waters.
After escalating tensions and military confrontations, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden met in a video conference on Monday night to ease tensions. Tensions between the two superpowers.
During the meeting, the top leaders of the two superpowers discussed a number of issues that led to tensions between the two countries, such as economic, trade, security and military confrontations.
Xi Jinping and Zhou Biden discussed for nearly four hours the focus on responsible and non-competitive competition that does not lead to conflict that harms the whole world.
China has criticized the United States for establishing a security partnership agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom, known as AUKUS, for selling eight nuclear submarine-building technologies to Australia. Considered to be a new arms race caused by the United States.
The root causes the story
The reason why Taiwan has become a competition for military influence between the Chinese and US powers is because Taiwan is a democratic territory and has security support from the United States.
Taiwan is not a country and does not have embassies in any country in the world because China considers the island as its territory and tries to sever Taiwan's relations with other countries in the international arena. This has received security support from the United States.
Concerns are that as the United States sells more weapons to Taiwan, China is putting more military pressure on the island, and as China puts more military pressure on Taiwan, the United States is selling more weapons. The island, which led to greater military confrontation.
Recall that in 1962, the United States and the former Soviet Union had a severe missile crisis together, the two countries almost erupted into a missile war, which tensions lasted 13 days.
The United States then deployed missiles in Turkey to attack the former Soviet Union, and the Soviets deployed missiles in Cuba with the aim of attacking the United States.
The situation in Taiwan today is similar to the missile crisis between the United States and the former Soviet Union in 1962, but it has not yet become a crisis.
