Taiwan is extremely vulnerable to a possible Chinese airstrikewhatever would be harder for US intelligence to detect because of Beijing’s new tactics, according to leaked documents of the Pentagon, quoted by The Washington Post on Saturday.
US officials fear that Taiwanese air defense cannot “accurately detect” missile launches from China. and respond effectively and quickly, according to these confidential files whose authenticity could not be independently verified by AFP.
Just over half of the United States Air Force Taiwan could be used in combatand moving some of these planes to shelters could take a week, the Post says based on these sources.
The documents are part of it a series of secret official communications that have been distributed on the Internet without permission. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old US military man, was charged with these leaks on Friday during an appearance in federal court in Boston.
According to the texts cited by The Washington Post, Beijing’s new tactics, such as using civilian ships for military exercises, have “eroded” U.S. intelligence’s ability to detect an attack on Taiwan before it happens.
They also question the effectiveness of military exercises Taiwan is preparing for a real attack.
Tensions over Taiwan, a self-governing island in the Pacific Ocean that Beijing claims as one of its provinces and whose restoration even by force does not rule out, have increased in recent weeks.
Chinese forces have just staged major exercises following a meeting on US soil between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the third most important political figure in the United States, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy.
Source: Eluniverso
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