Name: Here’s What Happens If China Invades Taiwan
Uploaded: 2022-02-27T07:55:16.000Z
Duration: 21 min 34 s
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- [Johnny] In the summer of 1995, China sent a bunch

They then started testing missiles and putting it on TV.

They then started running highly publicized combat

exercises, very similar to what it would look like

to cross this 130 kilometer wide straight

A place that China doesn't think is a real country

a rebellious island province in an unfinished civil war.

near Taiwan has the us and other concerned.

- [Johnny] China did all this saber rattling

and the US Congress voted to give it to him

defined Beijing and undermining China's claim to Taiwan.

Oh, and Taiwan was holding their first democratic election.

- [Reporter] These are the first free elections

that it would start the new military exercises

less than a week before Taiwan's presidential election.

- [Narrator] China hated that all of this was happening

on this island that they think is theirs.

- Diplomatic trouble may be brewing again

since the Vietnam war right here in China's neighborhood.

President Bill Clinton sent in all of the US's best stuff.

Aircraft carriers, guided missile cruisers, destroyers,

from the most powerful military on earth.

So all of this concentrated US military power

and enters right here through the straight of Taiwan.

and all of its efforts to intimidate Taiwan.

"China, we are way more powerful than you.

So back off and let Taiwan do its thing."

China backed down and the US reasserted itself

as the global powerhouse, a power that no one can mess with.

Okay. So now let's fast forward to last fall.

and China is at it again, flexing on Taiwan.

is flying military aircraft into this air border

Taiwan's air defense identification zone or ADIZ,

China has started flying military aircraft

without asking permission, without identifying themselves.

but like dozens of times per day, hundreds of times a month

these are the actual recorded flight paths

of Chinese aircraft flying over Taiwan's ADIZ.

And then back to China, it's a giant F.U.

to Taiwan or rather remember whose boss here.

on every single one of these Chinese flyovers.

- [Reporter] Taiwan's air force scrambled again today.

from the Foreign Policy Research Institute

and it's incredibly useful to see China's activity

You can see this massive surge late last year in flyovers.

This is a graph that shows every single time

a Chinese jet has flown over Taiwan's ADIZ in 2021.

This was the week that China was celebrating its founding

and they were sending a very clear message to Taiwan.

That week, this Chinese state owned publication comes out

with this headline: Time to warn Taiwan secessionists

So guess who shows up to the region to calm things down?

- A US war shit has sailed through the Taiwan Straight.

- So right after this huge bulk of flyovers

of Taiwan's aides, the US sends in guided missile destroyers

And there are accompanied by a Canadian show.

- One of 25 Chinese aircraft that entered its defense zone.

Here's when the US sailed through the Straight.

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