(Ann Wang/Reuters) The dominos are stacked like this: If the PLA invades Taiwan, they will violate Japanese territory, and the Japanese Self Defense Force would engage. If Japan fights, the United States is obligated to fight.

Taiwan has complained over the last few months of repeated missions by China's air force near the self-ruled island, concentrated in the southwestern part of its air defense zone near the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.

The CCP claims the self-ruled democracy of Taiwan as its own territory and has threatened to annex it by force, despite having never ruled the island.

Western powers have launched large-scale military operations in support of less defensible rights of self-determination and democracy than those of an independent Taiwan.

"Consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act, part of this cooperation involves strengthening Taiwan's capabilities for self defense as well as the ability of the United States to deter and resist any resort to force across the Taiwan Strait," Ellis told

China Flies 29 Warplanes Near Taiwan Some 29 Chinese aircraft flew near Taiwan, and 10 Chinese navy vessels were spotted surrounding the self-ruling island from June 21 to June 22, according to Taiwan's Defense Ministry.

TAIPEI, Taiwan—China’s military sent 103 warplanes toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period in what the island’s defense ministry said Monday was a daily record in recent times.

Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said that inaction in formulating and enacting a strategy to deter CCP aggression in the Indo-Pacific would ultimately come back to hurt the United States, and urged Congress to give the island more arms for Taiwan's self-defense.

Commenting on Taiwan's submarine launch, China's Defense Ministry said the self-governing island was "attempting something impossible."

Navy and Coast Guard forces and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force in August.

Army from the Ukraine war that it would apply in the defense of Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China seeks to control.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) visit to Taiwan in August. “They repeatedly ignored our warnings to leave, and we had no choice but to exercise self-defense and shoot,” Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang said.

The regime also continued its military aggression against self-ruled Taiwan, breaching the island’s defense zone by sending dozens of military craft on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24—its largest-scale military incursion this year.

The Chinese regime sent a large number of military aircraft and warships toward Taiwan on March 17, a show of force that Beijing described as a response to the recent actions by the United States regarding the self-governed island, which the regime claims

"All I can tell you is we have a serious commitment to Taiwan being able to defend itself," he said, referring to the United States' obligations under the Taiwan Relations Act to provide arms to the island for its self-defense.

The act authorizes the United States to supply Taiwan with military equipment for the island’s self-defense.

Taiwan, a de facto independent nation with its own democratically elected government, has relied on the United States for weapons for its self-defense.

Currently, the United States maintains a robust, nondiplomatic relationship with Taiwan, and supplies the island with military weapons and equipment for its self-defense against Beijing, which has threatened to forcibly annex the self-ruled island.

Taiwanese officials reiterated their commitment to strengthening self-defense and deepening cooperation with the United States, while China strongly condemned the sales, warning that they could heighten tensions in the Taiwan Strait.

Department of Defense was “pressing Japan and Australia to make clear what role they would play if the U.S. and China went to war over Taiwan.”

While opinions differ on whether the United States should or will directly get involved if the CCP invades Taiwan, it has been arming the island and training its military personnel for its self-defense, particularly since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, however, and has never been under the control of the CCP, but is a flourishing democracy.

Part of China’s Strategy Ho Cheng-hui, CEO of civil defense group Kuma Academy, said the incident was part of China’s efforts to test the international community’s response level as it seeks to escalate its gray zone tactics against Taiwan.

The United States switched diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China from Taiwan in 1979, but the Taiwan Relations Act, passed shortly after, provides for de facto diplomatic relations with Taiwan and provision for its self-defense needs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, also in Singapore for the summit, said the Trump administration’s posture is aimed at deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan—an island the Chinese regime claims as its own.

While the United States recognizes Beijing as the official government of “China,” it continually equips Taiwan with weaponry to assist the island in self-defense against Beijing’s continued military threats.

The act authorizes the United States to provide the island with military equipment for its self-defense.

The Trump administration enhanced U.S. support of Taiwan by increasing arms sales for its self-defense and sending Cabinet officials to the island. Earlier this week, former national security adviser H.R.

China has ramped up military flights near Taiwan, sending more than 200 aircraft into Taiwan's air defense identification zone in October.

Washington is required by law, known as the Taiwan Relations Act, to supply the self-ruled island with military equipment for its self-defense.