News that Taiwan has been invited to RIMPAC is positive, as would be exercises with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and in the Malabar exercises hosted by India.

Chinese incursions into Taiwan have occurred almost daily as the CCP increased military pressure on the self-ruled island.

The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) sent a large contingent to join this year’s Balikatan combat exercises for the first time, and is otherwise rapidly improving its capabilities.

President Joe Biden committed to defending Taiwan if the self-ruled island was attacked by China.

The CCP has never ruled Taiwan before but views the self-ruled democracy as part of its territory to be taken by force if necessary.

The hotline was established to link the leadership of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) at the nation’s defense ministry with Chinese defense ministry officials.

Beijing consistently claims self-ruling Taiwan as part of its own territory and has never renounced using force to bring the island under its control.

Tensions between self-ruled Taiwan and Beijing have been escalating, with China making its recent largest incursion into Taiwan's air defense zone on May 6 with fighter jets and bombers.

Tsai said mounting pressure from China for Taiwan to accept a "one country, two systems model" and its attempts to alter the cross-strait's status quo underscored the need for Taiwan to "increase our self-defense and deterrence capabilities."

Speaking at a forum in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 15, Yu said, “Protecting Taiwan is an act of altruism—and also a necessity rooted in self-interest.”

His comments came weeks after Beijing deployed a record number of aircraft into Taiwan's air defense zone, prompting sharp protest from the self-ruled island and the United States.

The TRA authorizes the United States to provide the island with military equipment for its self-defense, and set up a nonprofit corporation called the American Institute in Taiwan, which is now the de-facto U.S. embassy on the island.

Former Japanese Air Self-Defense Force Air Support Commander Orita Kunio predicted that in a recent interview that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could come as early as 2020.

PLA Naval Envelopment The Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JASDF) have reported PLA Naval deployments between Japan and Taiwan into the western Pacific. These trends are depicted by the most recent Japanese Defense White Paper (2021).

in Global Times adding explicitly that military bases in Japan would be hit if Japan’s Self Defense Forces become involved in a Taiwan contingency.

–Taiwan Mutual Defense Treaty.

(@MoNDefense) April 12, 2022 Taiwan launched the All-Out Defense Mobilization Agency last December as part of its efforts to boost the reservists' capabilities in the event of war.

The Chinese regime considers Taiwan its territory and hasn’t ruled out the possibility of annexing the self-ruled island nation by force.

Under TRA, the United States has supplied Taiwan with arms and military equipment for its self-defense, much to the ire of Beijing.

China claims the self-ruled island as its own and has vowed to conquer it by force if necessary.

At that meeting, she said a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would likely create a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan—an action that could compel Tokyo to deploy its Self-Defense Forces in response.

The Chinese military announced new exercises on April 2, in sensitive waters near Taiwan, in a second consecutive day of drills around the self-ruled island it claims as its own.

The discussion also covered the importance of stability in the Taiwan Strait, where tensions between the self-ruled island of Taiwan and China have been rising.

Taiwan’s national defense is positioned mainly against military threats from the Chinese regime, which views the island as its territory, even as the self-ruled island boasts its own democratically elected officials and military.

that the full amount is necessary to strengthen Taiwan’s self-defense and safeguard U.S. personnel in any contingency with China.

Washington must also make good on policies set forth in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) to ensure that Taiwan has sufficient weapons for its self-defense.

The Chinese Communist Party, which has never ruled Taiwan, considers the self-governed island as a renegade province and never ruled out the possibility of using force to control it.

However, Taiwan has never been controlled by the CCP. The island nation has been self-governed since 1949 and boasts a thriving democratic government and market economy.

The TRA authorizes the United States to provide the island with military equipment for its self-defense, and set up a nonprofit corporation called the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), which is now the de facto U.S. embassy on the island.

Self-ruled Taiwan has criticized Beijing’s escalated military harassment in recent weeks, which included a record show of force from the regime’s air force over the island’s air defense zone.