The discussion posits that a Chinese blockade or attack on Taiwan would trigger a robust international response, particularly from the United States and its allies, and that Taiwan possesses sufficient defensive capabilities, augmented by off-island support, to deter or repel such aggression.
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If they impose blockade actually it's
very easy to break blockade because when
ch when China imposes blockade you think
the whole world is just gonna stand by
and do nothing
of course not
I suspect immediately there will be
economic sanction I would say um almost
100% sure because United States
understands if United States cannot help
defend Taiwan
And the impact on US presence in the
Western Pacific is tremendous. If we
can't stop China
at Taiwan, why would Japan, Korea or
Philippine believe United States have
the capability to stop China from
imposing their will against these
countries? US defense for Taiwan will be
done near Taiwan. Okay. our carriers,
our deployment in the Philippines, in
the Japanese islands. Okay, we can get here.
here.
Our forces from those islands can help
destroy everything that's on Taiwan
Straight, in the air, in the sea, under
the water. So there's no need. So when
people say United States is not going to
come to Taiwan, you're right. We're not
going to come to Taiwan, but we will be
around Taiwan, help protect Taiwan.
That's all Taiwan needs because Taiwan's
ability to defend that area in front of
Taiwan is enough. United States will go
from the side and other allied forces,
Australian, Japanese will go from the
side because of US interest. I believe so.
If war starts, okay, it's going to be
very chaotic on Taiwan. Okay, civilians
try to evacuate, military deploy and try
to fight. If United States come to Taiwan,
Taiwan,
we would actually contribute to that chaos.
chaos.
This has all been studied. Obviously,
our presence, our help to defend Taiwan
don't need to be on Taiwan. Taiwan have
enough resources to defend itself. The
layer defense on the air now with the
latest arm cell, the layer defense on
the surface. Okay, if you look at what
that's on the latest arm cell package,
enough US coming to Taiwan will
contribute that to that mess. Your
military is busy defending Taiwan and
still have to take care of the
Americans. No, US defense for Taiwan
will be done near Taiwan. Okay, our
carriers, our deployment in the
Philippines, in the Japanese islands.
Okay, we can get here.
Our forces from those islands can help
destroy everything that's on Taiwan
Straight, in the air, in the sea, under
the water. So there's no need. So when
people say United States is not going to
come to Taiwan, you're right. We're not
going to come to Taiwan, but we will be
around Taiwan, help protect Taiwan.
That's all Taiwan needs because Taiwan's
ability to defend that area in front of
Taiwan is enough. United States will go
from the side and other allied forces,
Australian, Japanese will go from the
side. None of the forces will come to
Taiwan because truly uh if you look at
it carefully um other than a small
coordination team maybe 20 30 people to
as a liaison team to coordinate activities
activities
to make sure we we work together you
know where are the Taiwan submarines for
example okay we want to know so we don't
end up hitting Taiwan submarine and our
forces where so make sure you don't hit because
because
other than it's very small I believe you
know I I don't want to talk about the
actual war plan besides I haven't seen
the war plan for over 10 years so it's
changed so many times but other than I
believe other than a small liaison team
of people coming to Taiwan in the
command center coordinated a action
there will be no boots on the ground so
to speak US forces I can't imagine US
deployed forces to come to Taiwan okay
it just you you actually create problem
for Taiwan. So the defense of Taiwan by
United States and coalition forces will
be done from off island
Well, actually, let me address the first
part of your question. Okay. uh and um I
seen in many of the prochina media talk
about saturation strike by the rocket
and missiles. Um
Um
if you look at the latest package uh
ATACM okay 421 ATACM right
>> uh before Taiwan bought 84 okay when we
sold atam to Taiwan last time 84 I was
thinking hm this is a policy change why
well atakam 300 kilometer can hit China okay
okay
I wasn't sure but at this time with 400
something I'm sure there's a policy
change because if you recall before
United States only sell defensive
weapon. Okay, United States did not want
Taiwan to hit China and uh basically
escalate the war. So Taiwan developed
your own Shong missiles that can hit
China. Okay.
So if you think China's rocket
which flies a low profile actually can
get here before the missile. Okay. How
long does it take China's rocket to fly
from China to Taiwan? Seven and a half
minutes. Okay. When they launch, within
two minutes, well, within seconds, the
satellite is going to see it. I'm going
to pass intelligence down. And then
Taiwan before the war, Taiwan spy should
already know, oh, these rockets trucks
are leaving the base and ready to
launch. And there they are. Okay. And
they can't move the bases. So, we know
what the bases are. So as they launch
within five minutes of their launch
before their first missile hit Taiwan
Taiwan's ATACM and Shong should be on
their way to China. War has started once
they fire the war has started. You can't
recall the missile missile is going to
turn not going to turn around and and go
home. Right? So this capability,
this ATACM capability and the Shong
capability will seriously degrade
China's second wave. Remember, China has 1,500
1,500
1,600 missiles, for example,
they have 600 launchers. Okay? So the
first wave of missiles sh the their don
missiles they might launch about 600 if
every one of them work. Okay.
How many will be shut down
by Patriot TK3? How many will be let go
to let them hit the rice field or
mountain when they don't hit any
important important things? How much
damage can they do? Okay. Uh rockets.
Rockets a problem. Taiwan needs to
strengthen it rocket defense. But
rockets once again GPS guided you can
self-kill right I mentioned earlier beto
you jam the signal they go stupid okay
so you protect your critical
infrastructure it will still hit some
houses and stuff unfortunately okay so
if you look at that from that angle okay
one saturation strike not going to
happen some I I saw some media say
10,000 missiles and rocket going to hit
Taiwan But please go go look at how many
launchers they have, how many rocket
launchers they have, and how many holes
they can do, you know, and also will
they have a chance to do second strike.
I think Taiwan's counter strike, okay,
can eliminate probably
50% or more of China's second wave
ability because you're going to hit that
missile base. So, they don't have
ability to reload those big uh uh
missiles that China uses and certainly
the the rocket locations and um just
remember when they do that, coalition
forces will be doing that too, you know.
So um I'm not too worried about that
because knowing the process and the main
thing is Taiwan once they get the
systems they need to practice is uh
rapid response you know because like I
said you should have those target sets
already preloaded
in your system okay
where to hit if China strike the fixed
targets it's easy they're missile bases
Okay. Where they have the munition
storage area. So those should already be
preloaded in a tack uh target and in
shong. Okay. Uh Taiwan can do its own
saturation strike. Okay. Um Taiwan is
building thousands of Shong 2 uh to E
long range cruise missiles. Right. So
you you go out there and knock down
their follow on strike capability. Okay.
then it's not that bad. It's that first
strike you have to intercept many of
them. It's not that bad. So I I I I
when I see this media report 10,000
missiles against Taiwan, but truly
Taiwan is a big island. If you look at
10,000 holes,
no country has ever surrendered because
of 10,000 holes. Okay? United States
bombed Vietnam
uh with millions of hoes. You know,
Vietnamese survived.
This type of strike is is intimidation
to people. Okay. Boom boom boom. Because
if you look at the size of a 250 pound warhead
warhead
or uh 500 pound warhead, the size of the
holes, I've seen the size of holes that
they make, you know. Um,
okay. Um to answer your question because
of US interest I believe so but your
premise two three months I think the attrition
attrition
to China's forces across Taiwan straight
remember Taiwan is not like like Ukraine
where Russian forces can hide behind the
mountains behind the tree and come over
and attack there's no place to hide over
Taiwan okay so as Indocom commander
Papyrro said it'll be hell straight
straight you know so the hellscape
that's description is very accurate
because when everything over Taiwan
straight in the sky on the water you
shoot you kill okay China can't survive
that there's an attrition rate so can
they last two three months I don't think
so I think when they get to a 30 40%
attrition rate and they lost all the big
ships okay they can't continue the war
that there's no possibility that they
can come over here helicopter
airborne. Taiwan have thousands of stingers,
stingers,
you know, as they get close and stinger
guys can sign in behind any tree. Uh so
so first of all but just in case they do
this okay uh I cannot imagine at least
when I was in DC it was made very clear
to me that uh Taiwan is the key because
if United States cannot help Taiwan
survive then our prestige in the
Asia-Pacific region will be zero. Okay,
our allies will start developing their
own nuclear weapons and start finding
ways to defend themselves. Small
countries and Philippines, Malaysia,
Vietnam will all say, "Okay, we're going
to have to listen to China." Okay?
Because we don't have a
country or even
world organizations
that can stop China because China
already disregard international rules.
Okay? If they can beat United States,
there's no more need for them to obey
international rules, they'll impose
their rules. So at that time truly
United States will have to go back to
Guam and Hawaii. But we can't allow that
to happen because this whole entire
region is so important to us uh both
economically and militarily. So I think
um yeah if it comes to that point
US national interest would dictate US
deployment and come help defend Taiwan.
But like I said I don't see going to
that point. Uh I don't I don't see how
this whole scenario have a positive
turnout for China. Even though many
medias think Taiwan should just give up.
I I think this media is being paid by
China to to to promote this uh defeist
attitude. Um if you look carefully at
how Taiwan defense uh scenario goes,
I don't see a scenario where China can
win. You know, unless through
psychological warfare, cognitive warfare
or Taiwan give up themselves.
actually Taiwan's model is very similar
to what United States has right now. We
have centralized control, decentralized
execution. When that link from
centralized control is cut, the the
decentralized portion already have their war
war
uh mission requirement.
So you continue to execute your war
mission requirement. Each unit knows
what we call war documentation.
No. Um so each unit knows in case you
lose that link. Okay. Even though that
command and control link is redundant,
you shouldn't lose it. But whatever,
just in case you lose it, that commander,
commander,
the commander of the flutilla, the
commander of the base, uh, fighter base,
whatever, air defense units, they know
what's their mission. My mission is this
area defense or my mission is to strike
these this these these targets. They'll
continue that mission, okay? without
guidance from above. The commander at
that unit is decentralized, knows his
mission. He will decide how to execute
that mission because dayto-day that's
what we do. The commanders get
authority. They get a overall
responsibility. You need to do this. The
commander decides how he execute to do
that. Okay. So by having those kind of
training, I'm hoping Taiwan is doing the
same because the concept is the same
centralized control, decentralized
execution. Okay, that's what Taiwan is
moving to which I it's the right thing
to do because you have to be ready to
lose that centralized control. If you
don't have that, what would you do? Um
during the Iraq war, Iraqis sat there
and waiting to to surrender because they
lost that centralized control. when we
jammed it and they have no further
direction. The tank unit just sitting there
there
waiting to surrender, waiting to be attacked.
attacked.
So you can't allow that to happen. A
centralized control organization like
the People's Liberation Army, okay, like
China, it's very centralized.
If they lose that command and control
system, I suspect many of the commanders
would know what to do because they have
not been trained. Okay. So what Taiwan
is doing now is make sure those
commander are trained to make decision
to execute their responsibility during
wartime even in a condition without
actually the question should be would
China willing to risk itself? Okay,
China's nuclear weapon right now is
about 10% of the United States nuclear
weapon and China's ability to deliver
that nuclear weapon is very limited as
compared to US ability to deliver that
nuclear weapon to China
and basically United States the number
of weapon and delivery system can I hate
to say this but majority of China can
become a wasteland because as you use
nuclear weapon That piece of land is
radioactive for the next 50 to 100
years. It's useless to mankind. Okay? If
you look at cha Chernobyl accident that
whole region, you can't use it. You
can't even eat what it grows, right? So
will China risk that because United
States declared nuclear policy is if you
use nuclear weapon against us, you can
be 100% assured of a nuclear response.
If you use nuclear weapon, United States
will counter with nuclear weapon. Okay?
And that nuclear weapon is before once
you launch. We have anti- nuclear
long-range missile system uh around
United States. Obviously, we have system
that capture on the the the middle phase
and also on the on the on the terminal
phase. United States missile will be on
its way over. Okay. So and it will be a
massive response.
So I China knows this. I mean the the
reason United States have declared
nuclear policies true is to deter
nuclear attack against United States. So
I don't see it. I don't see China even
thinking about because the in the latest
new nuclear policy review we said the
threat of use of nuclear weapon
sufficient for United States to launch a
nuclear strike. Okay. So I I don't see
that happening. Uh it we will be
foolish. It'll be a suicide escalation.
China, even if they launch nuclear
weapon, are they going to win? They're
not going to win. If you can't win, why
kill yourself? You know, it would
destroy the entire Chinese his
civilization be foolish. So, so I don't
see China doing that and I certainly
don't see China using nuclear weapon
against Taiwan. You know, Xiinping will
go down history as the the enemy of the
because I don't see how China can win
unless they can uh cause serious damage
internally to Taiwan before they start a
war. Okay.
The fifth column can create chaos,
destroy critical infrastructure, disrupt
chaiwan's own military forces from
defending Taiwan
before and during the war. Okay,
this is the most dangerous thing. The
fifth element which is operating now
taking also help
cognitive warfare.
These are the people who goes on TV
influencers. These are the people who in
the town meetings spreading information,
false information of uh you know uh
resistance is futile. If you resist
China, China just take over and you'll
be dead. Okay. And so that it caused
Taiwan to have a defeatist attitude
where reduces Taiwan's will to fight.
Okay. In the meantime, they can uh
destroy your your electrical
distribution grid, put poison in your
water using drones, attack military
facilities from any building top. They
can can launch a zone, a drone of some
type. So the type of damage they can do
is much greater than any of the
missiles. You can defend against
missiles. You cannot defend mind
influence unless each person in Taiwan
have a very strong central belief of
defending Taiwan.
What I worry about is the fifth element
that's in country now dayto-day they do
very low level cognitive warfare.
Sometimes you don't even realize it.
Okay. and and recently you saw the news
where uh they are uh paying off influencers
influencers
uh in Taiwan in the United States with
massive amount of money. So these people
received their money overseas probably
you know in their relatives account in
the United States they they receive US
dollar you know so it's difficult to
track but I understand it's been tracked
right now people are investigating some
of these people uh you know where
they're openly praising China and and uh
stuff so you wonder why would they do
that because of money you know and but
their influence these people probably
don't see themsel as fifth fifth column
but they are you are a fifth column if
you're serving your enemy right so all
these people might think oh you know I'm
great I'm doing uh you know my my my
home country whatever
but for Taiwan they're fifth column even
though you don't call yourself that but
you are so these are the people I worry
most because if Taiwan Tan's
determination to defend itself is affected.
affected.
People won't come to Taiwan's help. If
Taiwan is ready to surrender, why would
other people come help Taiwan? So that
is the key. That is why you see me talk
about this. And that is the only way I
believe China can grab Taiwan, annex
Taiwan is this. But like I said, these
people don't realize um if China do come
over, okay, China is one party system,
KMT, TPP or DPP, no more. It's a suicide
mission. And once these people loses its
usefulness, okay, right now they're
useful to to the communist, but when
they take over Taiwan, if they think
communist going to treat them better,
they better think again because you are
a traitor. If you are a trader, you're
always a trader. They won't trust you.
They probably the first one you get rid
of are these traders. So, so I hope they
think about this and uh uh think about
At that time the most important purpose
that United States wants to provide this
big radar is because
we want to give the leadership of Taiwan
time to evacuate because we are worried
about uh China use decapitation strike.
They they they may launch a couple of
missiles with the intention of killing
the leadership of Taiwan. So, this
radar, as you know, has a 3,000
kilometer range. They can give Taiwan
leadership about 20 minutes warning time
to take cover. Okay. The second purpose
is in case China decides to do a massive
attack on Taiwan using missiles and
rockets and airplanes,
this radar can detect it and provide uh
targeting, queuing uh information. It it
can tell like dayto day when Patriot is
monitoring missiles coming in, they will
scan the entire sky. Okay, this radar
can tell the Patriot system in about 10
minutes. You're going to have a radar
from this space and this space. So the
the Patriot radar can focus their energy
at those space. They see the incoming
missile early. It increases the
probability of kill. So those are the
main purpose uh primary two purpose
allow the leadership to have time to to
to take cover from a decapitation
strike. Second, to make the air missile
course, there there's going to be
missile defense that that protect that.
That's why I think China will use uh not
only missiles but also uh cruise
missiles to attack the this this site
since this is a fixed site. So most
likely they will use uh satellite
guidance system BO system. Okay. So
knowing that
you also look at the structure of this
radar. It's a 10-story tall radar. I
don't know if you have been there. Each
face has thousands of individual
transmitter receiver TR modules. So even
if you have a bomb blow up nearby killed
a few hundred, it still functions. But
the key is first you have the hard kill
option of having missile defense or
having fails close closing weapon system
that can kill the cruise missile. Second
thing is you use soft kill because a GPS
signal can be easily jammed. So the bet
signal and Taiwan has many of the the
the GPS jammers against bet system. you
can use soft kill and make these cruise
missile go stupid as they get close to
this site and they lose their tracking.
They don't know where they at and they
crash. Okay, so there are many different
defense system. Of course, I can't say
where it is or or how it's done, but
it's not so vulnerable as people think.
Okay, first of all, it's survivable
because it's so huge. You you need so
many missiles and bombs and to to to hit
it to knock it out of commission.
Second, they are the self-care protection.
Oh, of course. Um, Taiwan has many
mobile radars. Actually, majority of
Taiwan's radars are mobile. They're
they're deployable. They move around.
And once the combat starts, okay, once
Lean radar service primary purpose,
which is warning of the first strike, okay,
okay,
so it's damaged, let's say it's damaged,
okay, the actual combat is come is going
to take place within 300 kilometers of
Taiwan across the the Taiwan straight.
Taiwan's mobile radar all have that
range. you don't need that 3,000
kilometer range anymore. At that point,
Taiwan's surveillance and the
connectivity of the system and uh the
the command and control system will
depend on these mobile radar and their
picture will be integrated into one
single picture of battle area pictures.
So yeah, um it doesn't stop Taiwan's
defense because this is primary purpose.
Remember what I said, it's early
warning. Once the war starts,
the real surveillance and direction
passes to those mobile survivable
actually
that sharing is already ongoing
day-to-day. So, so it's it's nothing new
and I don't think uh it's it's
classified as far as uh the cooperation
between Taiwan and United States. So um
for example every week uh three four
times a week our RC135
goes along RC135 from Kadina it's not a
secret they they have two routes one's
north they go around China's northern
coast all the way to North Korea and
come back another one south go from
Okinawa all the way down to Han Island
and come back and and China have
intercepted many times so it's it's no
secret and all the information they
collect as far
where are the transmission source and
what are the frequency methodology and
all that information it's shared not
only with Taiwan but with our friends in
Japan you know uh any of the coalition
possible coalition partners uh the the
South China Sea information will be
shared with Philippines uh so this type
of sharing is ongoing dayto day so you
don't you don't need to establish a new
personally. I don't think they would. I
I think it would be very stupid to to do
that. Even though you you see in some of
the the more pro-China network in
Taiwan, they keep on saying, "Oh,
Taiwan's going to surrender in a week or
two or three weeks and stuff." I I can't
see it because uh blockade is a uh
double-edged sword for for China
because when ch when China imposes
blockade, you think the whole world is
just going to stand by and do nothing?
Of course not.
I suspect immediately there will be
economic sanction as that was imposed on
Russia. Okay. Um maybe the whole world
will stop the banking system will stop
using China Swift code so they can do
external trade. Maybe countries around
the world say oh you blockade Taiwan
your ship cannot come into your Kuska.
You cannot come into to San Diego,
Seattle. You cannot come into Singapore.
Countries might stop processing Chinese
ships. Even though it's might be Panama
register, but it's from China or or
ships that's going to China, maybe there
can be a counter blockade at straight of
Malacas. You going to China, hang on, we
want to inspect your stuff. You can't go
to China right now. So people talk about
how long can Taiwan last. Maybe they
should also ask how long can China last.
In addition during this time since China
already indicated my goal is to have
Taiwan give up to annex Taiwan. The next
step is using military force if Taiwan
doesn't give up. So at this time you
should expect United States and allied
forces to forward deploy to area around
Taiwan to further deter China from go
using their military. Okay. So
that's the military aspect, political
aspect. Maybe these countries including
United States will say if you use force
or if you continue this blockade, I will
formally recognize Taiwan as a separate
country from China. That's political
deterrence. Okay. So there are many
things that can happen and if China is
smart they have already thought through
the entire process because if they
impose blockade actually it's very easy
to break blockade if you some of the
older people remember uh Russia tried to
blockade Berlin after World War II
immediately the airbridge started coming
and I can see that happening okay I can see
see
airfields like Clark air base or or uh
subi naval base will be used to block
break this airbridge blockade and convoys.
convoys.
I believe the air bridge will be
established within days for critical
supplies. A convoy within a week or two
will be coming through with military
escort. Will China risk
starting a war by attacking this escort
convoy? attacking the fighter escort of
the airbridge or the the the ship escort
of the convoy. Okay. So if you look at
that will China escalate
expand this war into not just with
Taiwan not with everybody. Okay. So per
that's why personally I don't think they
I would say um almost 100% sure because
United States understands if United
States cannot help defend Taiwan
then the impact on US presence in the
Western Pacific is tremendous. If we
can't stop China
at Taiwan, why would Japan, Korea or
Philippine believe United States have
the capability to stop China from
imposing their will against these
countries? Okay. So, United States is
not ready to pull out of Asia, Western
Pacific. It's too important for the
United States national interest. So I I
cannot see a scenario where US will not
be involved. Um I I fully believe United
States will be here from from the very
beginning of a Chinese imposed action
either blockade or any other kind of
This is a very good question. Okay. Uh
majority of people don't understand US
decision-m process. All right. So every
area where US interest is involved, we
have a comprehensive war plan already in
place with many options. These options
based is based on the enemy's action and
also US readiness of preparedness at
different state of preparedness. We have
different options. Okay. So if China
wants to do something against Taiwan,
they can't hide it. Okay. Usually we'll
have strategic warning, okay? Maybe
weeks, a month in advance. Okay, it's
very hard to conduct a warfare against
Taiwan without having some kind of
preparation. Okay, because you you want
to win. So you cannot just have 20
airplane come around and attack Taiwan.
You can hide 20 airplanes, right? But
you cannot hire 400 airplane loading up
weapons. You cannot hide all these ships
getting ready to attack. So when we get
strategic warning, first thing that's
going to happen is our commander in
Indoaccom command will go to Washington
DC and go with the secretary of defense
and the chairman of the joint chief
because their adviser to the president
and the war fighter commander is PCOM
commander. The three of them will go to
tell tell the president sir this is
happening. We think China is ready to
attack and based on our current
readiness and what China is doing, I
recommend option C.
The president will get to choose and
decide okay if China attacks implement
option three, option C. Okay. So the
decision process actually is on the
front end. United States is not stupid
until enemy do something. Oh, what
should I do? No, that decision is made
beforehand and the Indopaccom commander
has given the authority
to execute the war plan the minute China
does something that trigger obviously is
classified what triggers that
implementation of the war plan. But the
fact is at that point when president say
execute option C within option C there
are force deployment order immediately
issued the carrier in San Diego deploy
the submarines from the west coast all
move forward moving and submarines in
Hawaii go out and of course Guam
submarines out there dayto-day so
the timing that most people don't
understand is it's quick because the
decisions made beforehand. Okay, the
president already knows, okay, if China
do this, it affects United States court
interest. We're not going to stand by
and and so
from the time that China takes action,
you should expect United States already
have response ready. Okay? And um and
this is not a secret. After the Gulf
War, everybody knows in in our war plan
based on the option, the first 72 hours
of combat action is already set who does
what to who. Then after 72 hours, our
war plan will determine enemies action.
Then we have what we call branches and
sequel. That's already our intelligence
studies. Okay, most likely if they go
this way, the following action such such
then we'll go to that branch and we have
sequels. So like I say, it's a very
comprehensive war plan. Uh I was a
planner for for two years and uh um
United States action will be very quick
and uh hopefully China understand this.
I say this because I really hope to
deter further deter China from doing
something unthinkable. Let's go the
political decision is already made. I I
don't think uh there's a waiting for
political decision. Um because uh
you know we we run this exercise when I
was in the military and and and uh um we
we do this on a Taiwan scenario uh quite
often uh even now um I don't think it
takes even the 72 tower is the war plan
how to fight the first three days okay
if we're going to engage in the fight
that decision is already made and like I
said the Indo Paccom commander already
given authority and the fact is if you
look at all the exercise we do in the
region king's war with Japan okay all
the exercise we have Australia in and in
in in in Philippines and also bamboo
eagle in the US
they are all exercising wartime scenarios
scenarios
as u we can't exercise entire war plan
okay we do a little bit of each time.
Um, and if you want to understand the
wartime command structure,
uh, how we will fight, okay, if just go
online and look at the command structure
for rim of Pacific exercise, rimac
exercise from previous years, you will
see how we deploy the joint task force
commander. Then under the deputy
commanders usually we have a Japanese or
we have coalition forces structure and
um we call it rimpact but the fact is we
exercise some of the things that we need
to do in case China starts a war so um
all these are exercised all these are
prepared and uh so political decision
like I your question is will it take
three days no it won't take three days
that is already done beforehand
the the military deployment is the
timing how far advance we have the
warning if we know China going to do
something we will start early if we
China surprise us and we don't have
enough forces then we use a different
option the the commander will recommend
to the president a different option
where maybe from US asset long range
strike first then then follow on if our
forces already forward deployed and you
know Uh more of the local strike and and
So
to defense against fifth column
is the duty of every citizen. Okay.
Without the participation of the
citizens, it's impossible.
Each citizen should become more aware.
When you see something strange, report
it or stop it. Okay? Because police and
army cannot be everywhere. But people,
you and I are everywhere. Okay? So it
takes the involvement, the awareness of
the people. Okay.
As far as defense weapon goes, of
course, you see in Taiwan's using those
uh uh radio frequency guns to point at
the the the the UAV, the drones to to
knock it down. And Taiwan is so
populated, you cannot use gun to shoot
it down because if you don't if you miss
the darn thing, you hit somebody. So
another thing I think Taiwan should
consider is like microwave weapon where
we can counter against a swarm of drones
by burning out the secretaries. You
know, United States is using that on
some of our bases um overseas because
what you worry about is every you know
here comes 50 drones. If you use this
microwave type weapon within one or two
kilometers they they lose function they
fall. Okay. Uh these are the type of
things I think Taiwan need to look at
more closely because the threat is real.
Like I mentioned, somebody on top of the
rooftop in every building, they can be
flying something. A $200 US drone can
hit a third, you know, $36 million F-16,
right? So, so you you need to defend
against these. So, as somebody
when the situation is getting bad and
some guy some some guy's carrying some
suitcase up to the rooftop,
it should be reported right away. You
got to catch them on the front end
before they take action.
Okay, they should be stopped. They need
to be stopped. That's how we defend
against fifth fifth element is through
the the the involvement of the entire
nation because the infiltration from
China uh is tremendous. It's very
difficult to prevent it. Taiwan got such
big coastline, you know, they can come
over, you know, the guy rode a little
boat all the way up to Dancer River, for
example, you know, so so these type of
things happen.
So the prevention
uh defense is a national defense requirement,
requirement,
people's involvement.
So that's how we defend against fifth
column forces. Tony,
Tony,
>> thank you.
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