WARNING: China Poised to Invade Taiwan’s Offshore Islands

Quemoy and Matsu, officially known as the Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties respectively, are groups of islands located directly off the coast of mainland Communist China, but are under the administration of the Republic of China, Taiwan.

In the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the People’s Republic of China shelled the islands of Quemoy and Matsu Islands in part to probe the extent of the United States’ defense of Taiwan’s territory.

During the 1960 Presidential campaign between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon, the defense of Taiwan, as represented by Quemoy and Matsu, became a major issue during three of their debates.

Quemoy and Matsu are not fortified, making their capture by the People’s Liberation Army an easy, but highly symbolic victory.

According to recent reports, footage uploaded by civilians in China shows large military movements of troops and equipment as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is expected to arrive in Taiwan.

The large military movements have occurred on major highways and railways throughout the Chinese province of Fujian, directly adjacent to Quemoy and Matsu.

In the last 24 hours, commercial flights have been abruptly canceled from airports in several cities in Fujian province. These airports include Xiamen, Fuzhou and Quanzhou. Xiamen Airlines put out a statement saying that the flight cancelations were due to “regional traffic control” and did not elaborate further.

This could be considered an invasion warning, the military occupation of the Quemoy and Matsu Islands as the first step by Communist China to subjugate Taiwan and eliminate U.S. influence in the Western Pacific.

Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. Dr. Sellin is the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution. His email address is lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.

This article originally appeared in the Gateway Pundit. Reprinted here with permission.

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2 thoughts on “WARNING: China Poised to Invade Taiwan’s Offshore Islands”

  1. I would not have shed a tear if piglosi’s plane was shot down but would have insisted every Chinese ship that the US could target be sunk and every aircraft splashed!

  2. I believe all this about China and Pelosi is part of the plan to rebuild Chance, the Gardner’s image into being a real foreign policy hawk. China has already taken down some of the threatening saber rattling that was in the China news, yesterday, although I haven’t heard any more about China boycotting Taiwan biscuits.
    China could very well invade the outlying Taiwanese islands, but that would be an act of war, and I think Japan might come to Taiwan’s defense.
    I’m not trying to make light of this situation, but the Democrats are in that much disarray, right now, and China has enough problems domestically to be invading Taiwan, although that is in their bucket list.

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