U.S. House Speaker After Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the People's Liberation Army held live-fire exercises around Taiwan Island for several days since the 4th. Many people on the island are quite worried and keep thinking about what actions they should take if there is a real conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, especially where Taiwan is safer.
In many surveys on the island, Taipei Palace Museum is considered the safest. According to a recent report by Taiwan's Zhongshi Electronic News , someone sparked heated discussion on "Dcard", one of the largest anonymous forums on the island on the 4th, "What would you do if there is a real war?" Many netizens said that if the war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait really starts, the most urgent task is to bring out all the savings, prepare sufficient materials and medicines, hide in air raid shelters or basements, avoid going out, and immediately move out of the Greater Taipei Circle, airports, and military key areas, and the best place to hide is the Taipei Palace Museum. In fact, this statement was proposed as early as when the Russian-Ukrainian War broke out in February. At that time, former DPP legislator Guo Zhengliang said that in addition to the basement and air raid shelter, "hiding in the Forbidden City will not be bombed!"
Although the statement of "hiding in the Forbidden City during war" has been widely circulated among the people on the island for a long time, the recent statement of the Palace Museum in Taipei has made many people "believe it as true." According to Taiwan's China Times on the 8th, in response to the rumors that the DPP authorities were preparing to select 90,000 fine items from nearly 700,000 collections at the Palace Museum in Taipei to transfer them to the United States and Japan for protection, the Palace Museum in Taipei clarified on the 7th that there was no such incident. Director Wu Micha said that the evacuation plan when the conflict broke out was practiced at the end of July, but the relevant details involved the safety of cultural relics and were inconvenient to explain it to the public. However, blue and green "legislators" said that they had not received relevant plans from the Taipei Palace Museum and believed that project report descriptions should be arranged. Democratic Progressive Party’s “legislator” Wang Meihui said that there are about 700,000 cultural relics in the Palace Museum in Taipei, and the competent authorities should discuss "wartime response measures" as soon as possible. According to police, the Taipei Palace Museum held anti-terrorism and disaster prevention evacuation drills on July 11 and 18 respectively, with the purpose of preventing and annihilation of "militants" in case of war. Taiwan's "Legislative Yuan" You Xikun said on the 8th that the cultural relics of the Palace Museum in Taipei are very precious and we must find ways to strengthen protection.
However, former DPP "legislator" Lin Zhuoshui believes that the so-called "protecting cultural relics" is a false issue, because this PLA exercise fully demonstrates that "once force is used, it will be surrounded by the island." He analyzed that if fire is opened, the mainland's weapons will be considered accurate and will not be specifically aimed at the Taipei Palace Museum. "If you land, you cannot fight seriously. First, send elite troops to occupy the Palace Museum and grab cultural relics." He also said, "Taiwan wants to withdraw cultural relics. It is surrounded by sea. There is no depth on the land at all. How can cultural relics retreat?"
Former director of the Palace Museum in Taipei Feng Mingzhu believes that the key is to keep cultural relics in place. "If a war breaks out, the original warehouse will be very safe. This is the unanimous idea of all retirees in the Palace Museum." She said that the Taipei Forbidden City is located in the Andshan Rock Pan of , Yangmingshan, . "It does not require movement or evacuation. All cultural relics have protection. The Forbidden City itself has safety facilities. Internal personnel know that all kinds of cultural relics have their own warehouses, and there are very safe mountain warehouses." She said that the evacuation drills during the disaster have been underway, and this drill is not a special thing. "At that time, all we have to do is to take back the 3,000 cultural relics displayed in the warehouse." There are also public opinion that Chiang Kai-shek needed to evacuate the cultural relics of the Forbidden City back then to avoid Japanese bombing. Now, even if there is a conflict between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, no one will deliberately bomb the Taipei Palace Museum or destroy national treasures. The address of the Taipei Palace Museum is in a very safe area, and it is safe even if an earthquake occurs.
Another place that is generally considered safe on the island is TSMC. Since the 4th, netizens have been discussing on the island forum PTT whether TSMC is the "safeest place after the People's Liberation Army has attacked", and some even asked directly "Can TSMC factory buildings block the missile "; some people have sarcastically said that the mainland may not necessarily attack, but should "be careful of the United States."Taiwan's "Today's" quoted an analysis from Australian scholars on the 8th as saying that the mainland relies heavily on TSMC's chips. If TSMC is missing, it will hurt its own economy. TSMC Chairman Liu Deyin recently said in an interview with CNN that if the mainland "invades Taiwan by force", all parties will lose. Wu Zijia, chairman of Taiwan's Meili Island Electronics News, said that the United States and the mainland are most concerned about Taiwan's production of semiconductor . Therefore, the importance of Taiwan is not how many soldiers or troops there are, but TSMC. He also said that Taiwan’s ability to survive internationally is not based on the DPP or Tsai Ing-wen, but on semiconductors, "this is the importance of Taiwan."
htmlOn the 8th, a poll released by the "China Popular Opinion Research Association" showed that 64.2% of the respondents believed that they should maintain friendly relations with the United States and the mainland. Taiwan's China Times Electronic News said on the 8th that the People's Liberation Army conducted a live-fire exercise "round Taiwan" from 12:00 on the 4th to 12:00 on the 7th. A latest street interview video showed that many people expressed their concerns, but felt helpless about the situation. Some people say, "This time is really more exaggerated than the one in 1996, and I'm afraid I'll be afraid"; some people say, "It's okay if you don't provoke the other party"; some people say, "Strait peace is the most important."Vice Chairman of the "Chinese Strategic Society" Fu Yingchuan html wrote an article on the 28th that from a military strategy perspective, the United States has no advantage in the Taiwan Strait region, "now the victory and loss have been decided, and the Communist army has won." The reason why the PLA won this time was because it reached the supreme level of military strategy and "betrayed the army without fighting", and used military exercises to create an environment that was beneficial to the PLA and did not dare to seize it. The best way for Taiwan to do the future is to peaceful reunification and avoid "martial reunification". The first secretary-general of the Taiwan Straits Foundation, Chen Changwen, said on the 28th that the mainland's move, on the one hand, counterattacked the United States' provocations in Taiwan affairs since the Trump period, and was also an ultimatum for the Democratic Progressive Party authorities and Tsai Ing-wen, who insisted on adhering to the "Taiwan independence party platform". He advised Tsai Ing-wen to be vigilant about "those who play with fire must burn themselves" and to make a quick decision to abandon the "Taiwan independence" proposition.
Taiwan's United Daily News published an editorial on the 8th saying that the PLA's island-sieged exercises are almost a procedural verification of "military unification". The missile blockade first came on the field, and then several batches of military aircraft, , warships, , crossed the so-called "middle line of the strait" and continued to practice ground attacks, fully simulated the script of attacking Taiwan, "Taiwan's compressed strategic space can no longer be returned."
(Original title: island began to discuss "whether to hide in wartime is the safest", Taipei Palace Museum and TSMC have become the "first choice" )
Source: Global Times
Process Editor: TF060
Process Editor: TF060
