Trent Telenko
3h • 5 tweets • 2 min readThe proper response to this PLA provocation would be for the Taiwanese to announce live fire exercises in its own territorial waters coinciding in time & space with the announced PRC exercises.
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Then come the day, treat any munition the PLAAF & PLAN fires in those areas as a live fire targets.
There is no downside for Taiwan doing so.
Xi's PRC is coming for Taiwan soon in any case.
2/And Taiwan being unpredictably lethal-crazy in the face of a bully, before Xi is really ready, while bluffing for the domestic CCP audience, is a very special message all of its own.
3/A very special message not just for Xi, but for Xi's CCP domestic opponents who are looking at the Russo-Ukraine War & what Western economic sanctions are doing to the Russian economy.
"Hybrid War" works both ways.
4/Of course, I don't expect Taiwan to do any of this.
We are in the age of "Don't Look Up" elected political elites.
Such elites can't see the incoming planet killer to save their mortgaged souls.
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