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For a long time, the discussion on "whether the United States will send troops to intervene in the Taiwan Strait when the PLA reunifies Taiwan by force" has been very hot in Chinese society.
The answer to this question has always involved the patriotism of hundreds of millions of netizens.
However, in recent years, with the coming to power of Tsai Ing-wen, Lai Ching-te, and other "political clowns" with obvious Taiwan independence tendencies, as well as Taiwan-US relations, all show that the US military's armed intervention in the situation in the Taiwan Strait seems to be a foregone conclusion.
(Lai Qingde)
On May 8, Li Xi, spokesman for the Eastern Theater of Operations, said: The US missile destroyer USS Halsey ignored China's warnings and sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a high-profile manner and openly hyped it! In this regard, the troops in the theater are on high alert and resolutely defend national sovereignty and security!
If that day does come, how should the PLA respond militarily? There are two major traps that our army must avoid.
Resist unity
1964, on the island of Taiwan.
When the news of China's first atomic bomb explosion came from the far northwest, Chiang Kai-shek, who had retreated to Taiwan, looked at the night sky and sighed all night.
"With the atomic bomb on the mainland, the possibility of the outbreak of World War III has been greatly reduced." This reactionary leader who once commanded China knew very well that his hopes of counterattacking the mainland had come to naught.
Only by separating one side can we survive.
(Chiang Kai-shek)
Out of selfishness, under the orders of Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan began the so-called "construction of national defense projects" that lasted for several decades, vowing to resist the reunification of the motherland by force.
Over the past 70 years, the Taiwan military has built dense fortifications on all beaches suitable for landing on the island of Taiwan, and built a system of permanent fortresses with fortress tunnels as the core, permanent fortifications as the main body, and field fortifications as auxiliaries.
In order to cope with the mainland's powerful conventional military forces, the Taiwan military has also been equipped with nearly 300 advanced fighter planes, 1,160 tanks, and more than 1,000 artillery pieces, and nearly 200,000 troops are ready to fight the teeth and vow to resist the PLA to the end!
In order to resist reunification, it can be said that the Taiwan independence advocates have laid a "net of heaven and earth" for the PLA.
(Taiwanese military armed with tactical missiles)
In the hearts of these Taiwan independence people who are armed to resist the great cause of the motherland's reunification, as long as the United States intervenes in the Taiwan Strait armed forces, the PLA attacking Taiwan will inevitably encounter the "two major traps" that they have carefully prepared.
The first trap is that the Taiwan military will use a powerful anti-landing force to strike at the PLA landing force with saturation firepower.
After all, the basic environment of the Taiwan Strait battlefield doomed the PLA to carry out amphibious landing operations in order to achieve the goal of reunification.
Just imagine, when the PLA's amphibious landing ships and attack ships, together with the East China Sea Fleet cruising in the strait, in the form of several landing clusters, will attack a number of predetermined targets on the island of Taiwan.
(PLA amphibious landing ship)
Under the circumstance that the PLA's "Guardian" ultra-long-range rocket artillery and "Dongfeng" missiles failed to clear the Taiwan military's airfields and shore fortifications in a timely manner as planned.
The Taiwan military only needs to seize the gap when the PLA landing force has not yet been fully deployed, and then under the guidance of the US satellite.
The Taiwan Air Force's F16 fighter jets and hidden shore-based anti-ship missiles, as well as artillery, can cause important casualties to the landing PLA.
(Taiwan F16 fighter)
Even the progress of the entire landing campaign will be slowed down, and it is highly likely that it will directly lead to the defeat of the landing campaign.
According to public information, in order to deal with the PLA landing fleet, the Taiwan side has prepared at least 300 "Hsiungfeng-E" cruise missiles, and if you are not careful, these supersonic missiles that can be mobile at any time will bring heavy casualties to the PLA.
The second trap is the safety of the PLA's logistical supply lines.
According to the deduction of the US think tank CSIS, as long as the PLA landing force lands on the island, the United States will join forces with the Taiwan military, South Korea, and Japan to complete the joint blockade of the island of Taiwan.
(U.S. intervention in the Taiwan Strait)
During the exercise, the US Seventh Fleet and Air Force strategic bombers will be dispatched from surrounding US military bases to launch a large number of precision-guided weapons outside the defense zone to strike at the PLA firepower that has been cut off from logistics, so as to achieve the Taiwan Strait version of "catching a turtle in an urn."
It can be said that from a military point of view, although the "two major traps" tailored by the Taiwan military and the US military for the PLA have sinister intentions, they have indeed posed a real test for the PLA's ability to attack Taiwan.
But they forgot that the PLA has never been vegetarian......
If it can win the war, the PLA is confident
On March 7, 2021, Wu Qian, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said in an interview with the media at the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress that in order to deter Taiwan independence elements, the PLA Air Force will increase the intensity of patrols around the island and realize normalized patrols around Taiwan.
Since the PLA Air Force first released information on patrolling around Taiwan in 2017, the PLA has become more and more frequent in patrolling the Taiwan Strait, and the types and numbers of aircraft have gradually increased.
(Normalization of PLA patrols in Taiwan)
According to the PLA, during the cruise, the H-6K, Su-30, Su-35, and Jian-11, reconnaissance planes, early warning planes, and refueling crews, including the Air Police 500, formed a special "cruising formation around Taiwan" to constantly temper their own combat capabilities.
With the systematic, normalized, and actual combat of the Air Force's military operations around Taiwan, the PLA's air supremacy around Taiwan is advancing to the core area, and the scope of activities of the Taiwan Air Force is constantly being compressed.
Shuai Huamin, a military expert who was a high-ranking member of the Taiwan military, directly expressed his stance on this: "There is no hope for fighting with the PLA for air supremacy around Taiwan Island, and the Taiwan military has no choice but to retreat to the 'decisive battle beachhead.'"
(帅化名)
In terms of the navy, with the entry into service of the No. 003 "Fujian" aircraft carrier, the Chinese Navy already has three aircraft carriers, and it has become the second country in the world to use electromagnetic catapult systems, and the combat efficiency of aircraft has been greatly improved.
And in 2020, China's self-developed Type 055 10,000-ton destroyer "Nanchang" also officially joined the combat sequence of the People's Navy.
As the world's first destroyer with dual-band radar, the Type 055 destroyer has extremely strong air defense capabilities and can effectively intercept incoming supersonic anti-ship missiles. It is clear that this is what is being prepared for protection against missiles on a certain island.
Not to mention the 052D missile destroyer, which was put into service by the Chinese Navy at the speed of "dumplings" a few years in advance, it can be said that in the face of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that easily seized sea and air supremacy in the Taiwan region.
Taiwan's planes will no longer be able to rely on fixed bases and depots to carry out shrinkage operations, which means that they will be easily destroyed by the PLA.
In addition, the main force of the Taiwan Air Force is still the old F16 fighter, and it is bound to be at a disadvantage in the face of advanced stealth fighters like the J-20.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the imaginary enemy of the PLA fighting in the Taiwan Strait has never been the Taiwan military, but the Western coalition led by the United States.
In the face of the self-respect of the Taiwan independence elements, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which has an aircraft carrier fleet, Dongfeng-21D anti-aircraft carrier ballistic missiles, and J-20 stealth fighters, has a sword and shield firmly grasped in its hands.
We have the ability to wipe out Taiwan independence elements together, resolutely defend national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and resolutely safeguard peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
epilogue
If one day it has to resort to the use of force for reunification, even if the US military is deeply involved in the situation in the Taiwan Strait, the PLA will be fully confident and capable of completely annihilating it militarily and successfully accomplishing the glorious mission of the great cause of the motherland's reunification.
Resources:
[1] Liu Zhaohui. The People's Navy is speeding up its march toward modernization
[2] Xu Jun, Jin Zhengbo. Efforts should be made to build the People's Navy into a world-class navy in an all-round way
[3] Li Chaolong, Wang Fujun. Facts and eloquence: the significance of the Air Force's cruise around Taiwan