Understanding China's military might, and whether Beijing will use it

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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On Point, News, Daily, Talk Show, Npr

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

1996. The last Taiwan Straights crisis. China's was badly outmatched by the U.S. So what's the Chinese military capable of now? Oriana Skylar Mastro and Bonny Lin join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:30.3	The Chinese government announced today that it is ending its military drills surrounding Taiwan.
0:36.6	However, Beijing also said further quote training and war preparation in and around the Taiwan
0:43.0	Strait will continue.
0:45.6	The Chinese military has been conducting live fire drills and missile launches in at least
0:49.8	six zones circling Taiwan, an aggressive show of force following how Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
0:55.4	controversial visit to the island last week.
0:58.8	Pelosi defended her visit, saying it was quote absolutely worth it.
1:03.8	At the same time, China issued a white paper today on its plans for Taiwan.
1:09.1	It's been more than 20 years since Beijing last issued such a document.
1:13.5	In the year 2000, the Chinese government promised not to land troops in Taiwan to force reunification.
1:20.6	But today's white paper scrapped that promise.
1:24.3	China will quote exert our utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunification the paper
1:29.6	stated quote but we will not renounce the use of force and we reserve the option of taking
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