{"id":19387,"date":"2021-01-29T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19387"},"modified":"2021-01-29T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:47:03","slug":"chinese-defense-ministry-to-taiwan-independence-means-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/chinese-defense-ministry-to-taiwan-independence-means-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Defense Ministry to Taiwan: \u2018Independence Means War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gabrielle Reyes<\/a> – January 28, 2021<\/p>\n

The Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) will take all necessary measures to \u201ccrush<\/a>\u201d efforts supporting Taiwanese sovereignty because \u201cTaiwan independence means war,\u201d a spokesman for China\u2019s Ministry of National Defense said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said<\/a> a \u201chandful\u201d of people in Taiwan are seeking the island\u2019s independence at a monthly news briefing on January 28.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe warn those \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 elements: those who play with fire will burn themselves, and \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 means war,\u201d Wu said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy deployed its Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group to sail through the South China Sea near Taiwan last weekend in an action supporting \u201cfreedom of the seas.\u201d Shortly afterward, China\u2019s air force responded by\u00a0deploying<\/a> eight bombers, four fighter jets, and one anti-submarine warfare plane to cross into Taiwan\u2019s southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). China\u2019s PLA has ordered<\/a> such air sorties more than 100 times since mid-September in an effort to intimidate the sovereign island, which Beijing considers a renegade territory.<\/p>\n

When reported asked him Thursday about China\u2019s most recent air force activity near Taiwan on January 23, Wu responded: \u201cThe military activities carried out by the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army in the Taiwan Strait are necessary actions to address the current security situation in the Taiwan Strait and to safeguard national sovereignty and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are a solemn response to external interference and provocations by \u2018Taiwan independence\u2019 forces,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory, and the Taiwan question falls under China\u2019s internal affairs and brooks no interference from any external forces,\u201d China\u2019s defense ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n

In reality, Taiwan has been a sovereign state for decades, with its own governmental structure, military, and society.<\/p>\n

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Gabrielle Reyes – January 28, 2021 The Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) will take all necessary measures to \u201ccrush\u201d efforts supporting Taiwanese sovereignty because \u201cTaiwan independence means war,\u201d a spokesman for China\u2019s Ministry of National Defense said Thursday. Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said a \u201chandful\u201d of people in Taiwan are seeking the island\u2019s independence … Continue reading Chinese Defense Ministry to Taiwan: \u2018Independence Means War\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,6053,73,8,15537],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-horse","tag-china","tag-pla","tag-taiwan","tag-war","tag-wu-qian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-52H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19389,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions\/19389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}