RUMORS OF WAR (ETH) – China has just threatened war as new threats have been made against Taiwan and it appears that the communist Nation is poised to escalate military force to bring to heel what it considers a renegade province.
This comes as a report stated that an attempt was made by the island nation’s opposition party to bring it into closer cooperation with the U.S. According to the report from US News, China was already angered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s ongoing tour through Asia to shore up support for containing China before the Taiwanese Kuomintang Party, or KMT, just launched a new effort for the government there to re-establish diplomatic ties with the United States.
“The only way forward is for the mainland to fully prepare itself for war and to give Taiwan secessionist forces a decisive punishment at any time,” Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state-sponsored Global Times, wrote in a column Wednesday morning.
“As the secessionist forces’ arrogance continues to swell, the historical turning point is getting closer.” “The more trouble Taiwan creates, the sooner the mainland will decide to teach Taiwan independence forces a hard lesson,” Hu wrote. Although the outlet is not a direct spokesman of the Chinese Communist Party it is aligned with its views.
