{"id":60585,"date":"2022-02-25T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/25\/as-russia-attacks-ukraine-taiwanese-wonder-what-china-will-do\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:31:26","slug":"as-russia-attacks-ukraine-taiwanese-wonder-what-china-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/02\/25\/as-russia-attacks-ukraine-taiwanese-wonder-what-china-will-do\/","title":{"rendered":"As Russia attacks Ukraine, Taiwanese wonder what China will do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-boris-johnson-business-08f569df695831ee467979527ea2e241\">The Russian attack on Ukraine<\/a> has put a spotlight on another place that could face an invasion by its larger neighbor, as some analysts draw quick comparisons to China\u2019s threats to assert its control over self-ruled Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While similarities exist and Taiwan is a democracy that has defied a more powerful authoritarian government, the differences are much greater. And for many on the island, the war in Ukraine, and war in general, feels far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think our situation is not very similar to Ukraine\u2019s, whether it\u2019s political or in terms of connections,\u201d said Ethan Lin, a 40-year-old who works in the service industry. \u201cChina has many exchanges with Taiwan in several areas, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan, an island of 23 million people about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off China\u2019s eastern coast, is self-ruled, but claimed by China. The decades-old issue has grown more intense since independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen took the helm in Taiwan in 2016, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-china-united-states-beijing-united-nations-0f27ca946b9fa97487af1ba8e80c3682\">China stepped up military pressure on the island<\/a>, sending ships into nearby waters and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-army-taiwan-air-force-df5ce025994309b138a015c8e0526a1f\">fighter jets in its direction.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/02\/25\/make-molotov-cocktails-battles-rage-in-kyiv-and-other-ukraine-cities\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22056245267903.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">\u2018Make Molotov cocktails!\u2019: battles rage in Kyiv and other Ukraine cities<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Local reports indicate Ukrainian officials are telling Kyiv residents to stay home and prepare Molotov cocktails.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s Eastern Command announced it had recently conducted landing drills in an undisclosed location in the East China Sea. Taiwan said that on Thursday, nine Chinese air force planes entered its air defense identification zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The critical question for Taiwan is whether the United States, which is not sending troops to defend Ukraine, would intervene if China invaded. The U.S. has no official ties with Taiwan but has historical relations and sells Taiwan billions of dollars worth of weapons. It is also bound by its own law to ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-sports-china-beijing-taiwan-8bc65dcc4165378ac2093fc33122733a\">Taiwan can defend itself.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan is also a dominant player in the production of semiconductors that are used in everything from smartphones to cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTaiwan\u2019s economy and technology is important to the U.S., and perhaps the U.S. will value Taiwan more, but we have to see how the conflict plays out,\u201d said Kao-Cheng Wang, a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and strategic studies at Tamkang University in Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan announced Friday it would join global sanctions against Russia, although it did not provide details on what those measures would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t sit on the sidelines while a big power bullies a small neighbor,\u201d Wang Ting-yu, a lawmaker from Tsai\u2019s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MPWangTingyu\/status\/1496866344276733953?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China and Taiwan split during a civil war in 1949. The U.S. cut formal diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979 in order to recognize Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While China\u2019s President Xi Jinping has stressed that \u201cpeaceful reunification\u201d is in the best interests of both sides, China\u2019s Cabinet-level Taiwan Affairs Office routinely issues angry threats to crush moves by Taiwanese politicians to continue pushing for an independent country, although <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-china-united-states-beijing-taiwan-f1b217a826a8ecd8ba7689d31b043148\">it\u2019s been left with only 14 diplomatic allies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has not ruled out force if necessary to achieve reunification, but for now, military action remains unlikely and outside events will have relatively little effect on Beijing\u2019s calculations, said Li Minjiang, a Chinese international relations expert at Singapore\u2019s Nanyang Technological University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExternal influences on China\u2019s decision over Taiwan are minimal,\u201d Li said, adding China would continue to use information campaigns and peaceful inducements to influence public opinion on Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian President Vladimir Putin is different from Xi and has previously used force against other countries, such as neighboring Georgia, said Wang, the Tamkang University professor. \u201cXi Jinping is rather strong, but he increased military activity, rather than starting a war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Taipei, the bustling capital, salesperson Peter Chiang doubted China would attack. \u201cI think even internally, they aren\u2019t that stable right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese Communist Party-owned Global Times newspaper has compared Taiwan to Ukraine\u2019s separatist eastern Donetsk region, where the conflict first broke out in 2014. Former U.S. President Donald Trump predicted Taiwan would be attacked in an interview this week in which he praised Putin\u2019s action.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/09\/02\/what-war-with-china-could-look-like\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635774999538290744-mar-2015-dawn-blitz-5jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">What war with China could look like<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A host of scenarios could push China and the United States into some kind of conflict.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Chinese officials are more careful. \u201cTaiwan is indeed not Ukraine,\u201d China\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said this week, insisting that Taiwan is an integral part of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Matsu, a group of outlying Taiwanese islands whose closest point is just 10 kilometers (6 miles) from China, Taiwanese politician Wen Lii is not dismissive of a possible invasion. But he rejected simplistic comparisons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLazy comparisons often fuel an inevitable, triumphalist narrative for China, or weaken confidence in democracies, while ignoring different contexts for each region,\u201d Wen, director of the Matsu chapter of the Democratic Progressive Party, wrote in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople in Matsu always remain alert, but discussions about Chinese threats are usually based on concrete observation instead of a foreign crisis,\u201d he said, saying there is no military buildup for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press video journalist Taijing Wu contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">9 PLA aircraft (Y-8 RECCE and J-16*8) entered <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Taiwan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taiwan<\/a>\u2019s southwest ADIZ on February 24, 2022. 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