'Rehearsing before invasion': Maj Gen GD Bakshi on China's recent provocation of Taiwan

Reacting to China's recent invasion into  Taiwanese territory, Retired Major General GD Bakshi called it is a "brazen attempt" to intimidate Taiwan as he claims that Chinese government is conducting initial rehearsals for an actual invasion of island nation. 

He furr ded that  repeated provocations by  Chinese side can also be an aim to desensitize ir enemy's defences so that Taiwan forces become accustomed to a repeated pattern of invasions by China and thus become unalert. Meanwhile, his statements came in backdrop of recent attempts by Chinese side when ir 10 military aircraft entered southwest sector of Taiwan's air defence identification zone (IZ) on Saturday. 

"It is only a matter of seconds when Chinese aircraft are over Taiwan as y come to edge of air defence identification zone furr testing defence forces. y are just trying to degre defence capabilities by such repeatative provocations", he ded. 

Furr referring to a recent survey carried out on Taiwanese people, retired Gen Major GD Bakshi said that a maximum number of people believe that a war with China is inevitable as y are just are "playacting" to build military pressure. Also, proclaiming that repeated provocations can trigger a major clash between both countries, he said that military capabilities of China and Taiwan are a mismatch.

"In case, China decides to go into a clash, Taiwan government can only try to seek time by multiple attempts so that y can seek  intervention of US government followed by entry of or countries including Japan, Australia, and or European unions. Wher it is just practice of repeated military pressure or pre-war practice is just a matter of time", he said. 

China's continuous attempts to inve Taiwan

Earlier on Saturday, 10 military aircrafts including 8 Shenyang J-16 fighter planes, one Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft, and one Shaanxi Y-8 entered air defence identification zone of Taiwan. Concerning same, rio warnings were also issued by Taiwan government, while aircraft and defence missile systems were deployed for monitoring Chinese planes. 

In a similar attempt earlier, two Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Wednesday followed by anor invasion on Friday when 11 Chinese planes flew into IZ. 

Despite fact that China and Taiwan have been ruled separately for past seven deces, China continues to claim its sovereignty over Taiwan, which is a democracy with almost 24 million inhabitants. On or hand, Taiwan, which has also resisted China's aggression, is strengning its strategic connection with democracies, especially United States.

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