Category: Taiwan

Taiwan looking for options regarding the future of its Mirage 2000 fleet

Like many other air forces using the device, such as Greece or India, the Mirage 2000 is a device particularly appreciated by Taiwanese pilots, and popular with public opinion in the country. Fast, highly maneuverable and equipped with high-performance Magic 2 and MICA air-to-air missiles, the 48 single-seater Mirage 2000-5Ei and 12 two-seater Mirage 2000-5Di acquired in 1992 and delivered between 1997 and 1998 have since largely contributed to to contain the incursions of the Su-27, and later of the J-11, J-10 and other J-16 of the People's Liberation Army beyond the line separating the strait...

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After a grueling Wargame session, US congressmen want to preposition armaments in Taiwan

Created in January 2023, the House of Representatives Committee on Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, frequently referred to as the "China Committee", has the mission of investigating the economic, political and strategic actions of the Chinese Communist Party internationally and in the United States, and to propose actions to respond to them. One of the most burning issues facing this committee, made up of 13 Democratic representatives and 11 Republican representatives, is none other than the growing threat that Beijing poses to its Taiwanese ally. To take the full measure of what an open conflict between the United States and China would be like...

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Taiwan orders 18 additional HIMARS systems from Lockheed-Martin

Like the Mirages during the Arab-Israeli wars and the laser-guided bombs of the Gulf War, the war in Ukraine brought out stars of the international arms market, such as the Turkish TB2 drone, the French Caesar cannon as well as the HIMARS long-range artillery system from the American Lockheed-Martin. The fact is, while the system had only been ordered, outside the United States, by 5 armed forces for less than 80 copies before February 24, 2022, it has since been ordered by 6 new armies in the world, for more of 70 units, not counting the potential Polish order which will be…

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The deployment of a Patriot PAC-3 battery on the Japanese island of Miyako-Jima enrages Beijing

Miyako-Jima is an archipelago of islands of just over 150 km2 located some 300 km southwest of the island of Okinawa. The island is home to 45.000 inhabitants, and has an airport with a 2000-meter runway, as well as several fishing ports and a base for the Japanese self-defense land forces. What makes the interest of this small archipelago, is that it is located at almost exact distance from Okinawa and Taiwan, and that the island constitutes in fact a perfect point of support to control the Chinese naval and air movements. from the South China Sea to the Pacific or around Taiwan. Fact,…

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China could not seize Taiwan militarily in 2026 according to simulations

While the attention of European leaders and soldiers is now quite logically focusing on Russia and on the direct and induced consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, American strategists are above all committed to anticipating the evolution of the political standoff and potentially military between Washington and Beijing in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The main subject of friction between the two world superpowers is none other than the island of Taiwan, which has been autonomous since 1949 after the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, defeated by the communist forces of Mao Zedong, left the continent. to install an autonomous government on the island. If, during the 90s and…

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Facing China, Taiwan resizes its army by bringing conscription to one year

It is tempting to draw a parallel between the situation in Ukraine prior to the launch of the Russian "Special Military Operation" on February 24, and the present situation in Taiwan living under the increasingly pressing threat of military intervention. Chinese. Indeed, in both cases, these democratic countries face authoritarian regimes with considerable military means, whereas in the absence of a firm alliance treaty and due to a certain complacency on the part of the West vis-à-vis vis-à-vis Beijing and Moscow against a backdrop of economic interests, they are struggling to modernize their armies. Very few Western countries outside of the United States have or had the…

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The new Taiwanese submarine will be launched in September 2023

Since the normalization of relations between the West and Beijing from 1995, the island of Taiwan, autonomous since 1949, and claimed by the People's Republic of China since that date, has encountered increasing difficulties in modernizing its defense tool. Indeed, the Chinese authorities perfectly knew how to handle a very attractive carrot, the Chinese economic potential for Western companies, and a powerful stick, the immediate and severe deterioration of diplomatic and economic relations, if one of its Western partners were to intervene in the modernization of the Taiwanese armies. This strategy proved to be extraordinarily effective, all of Taiwan's traditional defense partners,…

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China's harassment of Taiwan has escalated significantly

For 3 years, demonstrations of force on the part of Beijing towards its Taiwanese neighbor have become commonplace, in particular when it has come to ostentatiously show the displeasure of the Chinese authorities vis-à-vis certain Taiwanese initiatives. or the United States, such as the sale of military equipment or the visit of American officials. But for 6 months now, things have become noticeably tense between Taipei and Beijing, and the demonstrations of Chinese forces have largely gained in intensity and regularity. This November 7 marks a new stage in this increase in tensions, the People's Liberation Army having deployed no less than 63…

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Can Beijing impose a blockade on the island of Taiwan in the short term?

A few days ago, the American Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gilday, insisted on the risks of a runaway hypothetical conflict between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, on a shortened schedule. For the American officer, the US Navy now estimates that a Chinese offensive against the autonomous island since 1949 is probable by 2027, and could even intervene in the very near future, specifying that the window of opportunity had already started. His remarks were largely accredited by the declarations of President Xi Jinping on the occasion of the XXth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, but also by the reorganization of the Chinese high command which followed him, putting at…

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The US Navy confirms its fears of an annexation of Taiwan by Beijing by 2027

In March 2021, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Forces in the Pacific, Admiral Phil Davidson, stunned his audience by announcing that, in his opinion, the Chinese authorities were to be expected to launch military operations with a view to annexing the island of Taiwan by 2027. According to the American officer, there was indeed a glaring dichotomy between the trajectory presented by Beijing according to which China was to become a world military power by 2050, and the reality of the observed effort, which suggested a crossing of the curves between the United States and China much earlier than that. Also, taking into consideration the benefits…

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