Has the Chinese Communist Party Already Invaded Taiwan?

Dr. Munr Kazmir
4 min readJul 30, 2022

The People’s Republic Army doesn’t need a battlefield to fight a battle.

Elephant Mountain, Taipei, Taiwan. Photo by Jack Brind on Unsplash.

Chinese invasion of Taiwan may come sooner than expected,” announced Axios yesterday, breaking the bad news many foreign policy experts have warned might be coming.

“The Chinese government has repeatedly vowed to take control of the self-governing island, by force if necessary, and it reacts furiously to any gesture that seems to treat Taiwan as an independent state,” concluded Axios.

U.S. Officials Grow More Concerned About Potential Action by China on Taiwan,” wrote Edward Wong, David E. Sanger and Amy Qin for the New York Times on July 25, 2022. “The Biden administration is watching for any moves by China to close off the Taiwan Strait, and they would prefer that Nancy Pelosi cancel her planned trip.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s scheduled trip to Taiwan is only the latest bone of contention between the U.S. and Chinese Communist Party leaders.

Looking at the current geopolitical state of the world, it’s easy to understand why world leaders are worried.

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