You can’t say the Pentagon didn’t warn us. On December 18, the US Defence Department released the latest edition of its Congressionally mandated annual report on Chinese military capabilities.
It’s a sobering read, detailing the People’s Liberation Army’s breakneck modernisation in space and cyberspace, in the air, on the ground and on and beneath the waves – modernisation clearly meant to equip PLA forces to invade and occupy Taiwan while holding off any US or allied forces that try to intervene.
