Taiwan military exercises (File photo from Taiwan's " China Times Electronic News ")
The Russia-Ukraine war lasted for more than a month, causing Taiwanese people to panic about the war. In response to an incident in the Taiwan Strait, whether the United States and Japan will send troops to help defend Taiwan, Huang Jiezheng, director of the International Department of the Kuomintang and associate professor at the Institute of International Affairs and Strategy of Tamkang University in Taiwan, said on the 7th that if the two sides of the Taiwan Strait start fighting, in the eyes of many countries, it will be "two Han people's network" "Fighting each other internally" is an inertia that has continued for 2,500 years. The United States has not even sent troops to Ukraine . This is a deep wake-up call for the Taiwan region.
According to a report from Hong Kong's "China Review Service", Huang Jie-zheng attended the "Effects of the Ukraine War: Will the United States and Japan cooperate to defend Taiwan during the war?" held by the Taiwan Institute of International Strategic Studies on the 7th. He pointed out at the symposium that the so-called "co-defense" can be divided into broad categories. In the narrow sense, it means "you help me fight" or "you help me, I fight myself".
Huang Jiezheng said that if what Taiwan expects is "forced defense," then it can be seen from the experience in Ukraine that the United States did not send troops. This subverted the imagination of many Taiwanese people. They naively thought that if a war broke out between the two sides, Taiwan would just move a chair. That's good, because the United States will help us, so we don't need to be too nervous. Anyway, "big brother is here."
Huang Jiezheng emphasized that war is not a romantic thing, so everyone must take it seriously. If the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were to fight, we might think it was a battle over ideology , or a battle over lifestyles, but in the eyes of many countries, it was actually just an extension of the 2,500-year inertia between the two sides and the continued fight between the two Han people on the Internet. .
