Recently U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi completely neglected Chinese military and diplomatic threat and carried out her highly publicized visit in Taiwan.
During her visit in Taiwan, Nancy Pelosi once again reiterated U.S. government’s commitment to safeguard Taiwan’s unity, integrity and their broad based democratic system in future.
Prior to her visit, Chinese government threatened to attack her aircraft while she was on the way to Taiwan.
Though China threatened to destroy her aircraft, but they have backtracked from the same to avoid severe military and diplomatic backlash from the world communities.
Her visit in Taiwan has caused great deal of insult for China and the furious China has taken widespread aggressive military and diplomatic counter measures against Taiwan and to show their military and diplomatic might.
Immediately after her visit in Taiwan, China has carried many missile test and conducted it’s largest ever military excercises for a period of four days in and around Taiwanese territorial waters.
Their unilateral acts literally created sea and air “blockade” and the same has effectively disrupted Taiwanese shipping and aviation system.
China’s aggressive acts has forced Taiwan government to cancel more than 50 international flights from it’s Taoyuan International Airport.
China also banned importing of more than 2,000 Taiwanese fresh and processed food items from Taiwan.
At the same time, China did not ban importing of semiconductor chips from Taiwan because Chinese industries are heavily dependence on Taiwan’s semi conductors.
Chinese regime very well aware that Taiwan’s military well prepared for challenging Chinese military attack in future. That is the main reason Chinese military is still shying away from attacking Taiwan directly.
Please find below details of military equipments available in Taiwan’s military arsenal to defend their country:-
1) Improved version of H HAWK (I-HAWK) SAM air defense system.
2) Indigenously-produced SAM–the Tien Kung or Sky Bow air defense system.
3) Improved variant of the PATRIOT surface- to-air missile (SAM).
4) SKYGUARD air defense system that is a modified version of AIM-7M/SPARROW AAM.
5) ANTELOPE air defense system that is mainly used for intercepting low-flying helicopters, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, and bombers.
6) Fighters Aircrafts/intercepters – 288Nos. including hundreds of F-16 fighter jets and more than 50 Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
7) Helicopters – 208 Nos.
8) Attack Helicopters – 91 Noa,
9) Total military personnel – 168150 Nos.
10) Reserve military personnel – 150000 Nos.
China also very well aware that Taiwan would get widespread military support from Japan, U.S., Australia, European Union countries and NATO countries, etc. in the event of China attacked Taiwan.
If U.S. lead world communities starts providing most modern military equipments to Taiwan, then Chinese military finds difficulty in defeating Taiwan.
That is the reason, China is still hesitating to attack Taiwan directly, instead they are trying to show their military strength to Taiwan by carrying out military excercises in and around Taiwan’s territorial waters.