Taiwan has put its military on alert and held civil defense drills.
(Photo: dpa)
Just a week after Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine, Mike Mullen travels to Taiwan. The former chairman of the US chiefs of staff will be accompanied by the highest-ranking security experts the US can boast.
A clear sign that US President Joe Biden is apparently concerned: is China taking Russia’s war of aggression as a model and attacking Taiwan?
Washington apparently does not rule out this option, because Biden made it clear: Washington will interpret “any attempt to determine the future of Taiwan by means other than peaceful ones as a threat to peace and security in the western Pacific”.
China’s communist government regards free Taiwan as part of its territory and threatens “unification”, if necessary militarily. Since the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, parallels have often been drawn between the two conflicts: after all, Russia and China are seen as aggressive, authoritarian states with imperialist ambitions.
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