Four French senators arrived in Taiwan at the beginning of October. The non-official visits came after Beijing sent nearly 150 military aircraft over Taiwan’s air defense zone over four days.

The expression "Taiwan’s defense is Japan’s defense" is often heard in Japan’s Self Defense Force, and Japanese officials and politicians have recently started to say this publicly. This isn’t surprising.

Taiwan Since December, Taiwan’s defense ministry has reported more than 20 Chinese balloons crossing the median line separating Taiwan from China, with some passing directly over the island.

The meaning inferred by the China Lobby and the rest of the world by Acheson’s exclusion of Taiwan from the U.S. defense perimeter was clear: The United States would not defend Taiwan against PLA attack.

The regime views the self-ruled island as its own territory to be taken by force if necessary.

Currently, Beijing views the self-ruled island as a renegade province that must be reunited with the mainland, with force if necessary. However, Taiwan is a full-fledged democracy with its own government, military, constitution, and currency.

The Chinese communist regime said on March 24 that an individual claiming to be an active-duty member of the Japan Self-Defense Force forcefully entered the Chinese Embassy in Japan earlier that day.

But it would also involve higher risks for the People's Republic of China, not just in the direct conflict between the PLA and the Republic of China armed forces and the United States armed forces and the Japanese self-defense forces, but also there are

Equally self-evident is Taiwan's need to beef up its defenses.

Biden's defense secretary pick retired Gen. Lloyd Austin expressed his support for Taiwan when senators asked if he would be ready to support the self-governed island if Beijing decided to take it by force. Austin said, "...

The Japanese constitution has barred the adoption of strike capabilities since World War II and limited its military to a self defense force.

Taiwan is a self-ruled democracy with its own military, constitution, and currency. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees the self-ruled island as a part of its territory that must be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary. 

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

President Lai pledged to bolster the island’s national defense, continue pushing for defense reform, and improve the military’s combat effectiveness.

Taiwan has been independent since 1949, but China considers the self-ruled island part of its territory that must be united with the mainland—by force if necessary.

A Changed Approach to Taiwan’s Defense Taiwan's terrain is such that any defense is a coastal defense, but at the same time, there's enough room so Taiwanese forces can, and will, be deployed to conduct a more mobile (and survivable) defense to hit targets

In recent years, Taiwan has been bearing the brunt of persistent Chinese military harassment, with military jets flying into the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on a regular basis.

made a formal defense promise to Taiwan.

(Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images) China The United States maintains robust ties with Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act, under which Washington is obliged to supply self-ruled Taiwan with the means to defend itself.

“We should not be self-deterred, and we should not take all these declarations and proclamations from Beijing too seriously,” Esper said.

Graham vowed to work with his Democratic and Republican colleagues to "create a robust defense supplemental for Taiwan" and "draft pre-invasion sanctions from hell to impose on China if they take action to seize Taiwan."

Tensions in the region have steadily grown this year due to increasing military pressure from Beijing on U.S. ally Taiwan, which further escalated following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) visit to the self-ruled island in August.

Two 8-inch self-propelled artillery guns are fired during the 35th "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) military drill in southern Taiwan's Pingtung county on May 30, 2019.

They want the U.S. ambassador to do what's necessary to keep American defense coverage in place (and hopefully not ask too much of the Japanese). Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine and a U.S.

Cotton, during his questioning period, noted Colby previously argued that the United States should provide Taiwan explicit guarantees, while more recently stating the de facto self-governing island "is a vital interest, but it's not existential interest

This year, the Chinese military has sent multiple aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on a near-daily basis.

Taiwan.

Japan Self-Defense Forces have understood for decades the unpredictable nature of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and developed a robust defense against North Korea's high-flying and slow-moving missiles that remain similar to 1980s-era Soviet Scud missiles

Burgum suggested providing more arms to Taiwan, a self-ruled island nation that the CCP has targeted for take over.

Taiwan's defense ministry said the U.S. ship had sailed north through the Taiwan Strait in its freedom-of-navigation voyage and Taiwan had monitored the mission.