US forces stationed South Korea are ready to respond to a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan Area.
Speaking at a security conference in Singapore Last month, the US Secretary for Defense, Pete Hesgeth, said: ‘Beijing is credible to potentially use military force to modify the balance of powers in Indo-Pacific, “adding that the Pentagon “Reorients the deterrence of the aggression by the communist China.
This would mean that the American troops stationed in South Korea, as well as Japan and the Pacific Islands of Hawaii And Guamwould play a role in the role of credible deterrence against China for any potential attack against Taiwan.
There are currently 28,500 American soldiers deployed in South Korea as part of the long -term American engagement to help defend Seoul against any attack against North Korea.
No decision was made on the number of troops deployed in South Korea, but any future imprint would be optimized not only to defend itself against Pyongyang but also to dissuade China.
But this development could make a challenge for South Korea, which has historically opposed the presence of the American army.
He also presents problems for the newly elected South Korean president Lee Jae-Myung, who said he wanted to engage with North Korea with the support of American troops.
It comes after China has deployed dozens of warships and planes to surround the island nation of Taiwan in the threatening and large -scale war games last month.
The American forces stationed in South Korea are ready to respond to a potential Chinese invasion of the Taiwan region, said US Secretary for Defense
Taiwanese soldiers pose for group photos with a Taiwan flag after an exercise in improving preparation for Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Chinese troops of the popular liberation army are seen patrolling the Chinese flag on an exercise
Frightening satellite images have also revealed what seems to be the “invasion barges” of Beijing – the gargantuan platforms that connect to form a mobile pier that could allow the thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles to land on the coasts of Taiwan.
The military exercises of several days forced Taipei to answer by blurring the hunting jets and the warships to dissuade the too zealous members of the Popular Liberation Army (PLA) to constitute a serious threat.
But these alarming exercises were only the last addition to a disturbing tendency which saw Beijing becoming more and more aggressive towards his neighbor of the island in recent years.
The Chinese Communist Party (PCC), led by authoritarian president Xi Jinping, considers Taiwan as a province of Renegat to be brought under the control of Beijing, by force if necessary.
The Elected Democratic Democratic Party of Taiwan (DPP) chairs an autonomous democratic society and has requested close ties with the United States, hoping that its political, military and economic weight will remotely maintain XI expansionist trends.
American deterrence, dependence on the Chinese export economy to the west and the cost of a military operation to grasp Taiwan have led most analysts to suggest that Beijing is more likely to use less direct means to put pressure on taipei.
But politicians, military leaders and industry leaders in the world can no longer afford to ignore the prospect of a large -scale invasion – a scenario that would shake the foundations of the world as we know it and could well trigger a third world war.
Now, while Donald Trump pushes Taiwan to pay more for his defense while slapping him with important commercial prices, the concern develops so that the American president can start to treat Taipei – as an analyst said – “like a pawn to exchange with China to reach his interests”.