Recently, the Taiwan military released news that the Tsai Ing-wen authorities, under pressure and suggestions from the United States, decided to restore the original 4-month military training period to a one-year conscription policy, but the restoration time has not yet been determined.
The United States has always believed that Taiwan should show its determination to defend itself, so after putting pressure on the Taiwan military to "strengthen its reserve combat capability", it asked the Taiwan military to extend its service period. After the Russia-Ukraine war started, the United States was a little impatient and immediately sent a cross-party delegation led by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mullen to visit Taiwan. Mullen and others were very concerned about Taiwan's determination to defend itself.
At present, Taiwan’s defense department stated that the resumption of the one-year conscription system is collecting and sorting out opinions from all parties, and it has not yet been finalized. It is necessary to comprehensively consider threats, defensive operations, and military training. The current strength of the Taiwan military is 215,000, and the resumption of the conscription system is bound to expand the army. However, the scale of the military expansion has not yet been determined. Taiwan military officials said that it will not be determined until this year's "Han Kuang Exercise" computer soldiers and actual military exercises.
It is said that currently the Taiwan military enlists about 80,000 draftees for 4 months of military training each year, and these 80,000 men are not counted in the 215,000 troops. If the conscription system is restored, they will be included. But it is impossible to return to the 275,000 people in the previous " elite case ". According to this year's Taiwan military budget, the current total number of Taiwan military personnel includes 36,200 officers, 89,700 non-commissioned officers, and 44,100 soldiers.
In fact, the Taiwan military has discussed internally that no matter when conscription is resumed, the time must be uniform, that is, the service period for draftees born after a certain year will be restored to one year.
A Taiwan official said that the Taiwan authorities hope to use the Russian-Ukrainian war to mobilize people's hearts from the bottom up, and to recover in accordance with the people's sentiments, instead of making the outside world think that the Taiwan authorities have taken the initiative to restore the one-year conscription system and launched it from top to bottom. It can be seen that the Taiwan authorities want to restore the one-year conscription system, but they do not want to face public grievances.
After this news was disclosed, Taiwanese netizens bluntly said, "There is no need to think about solving cross-strait issues with your head. Solving Taiwan with war is bound to lose. This is not a question of service life at all." ", "Taiwan is becoming more and more like a colony of the United States." "It turns out that the length of Taiwan's military service is determined by the United States." Use the situation in Ukraine to intensify the so-called "military pressure" on Taiwan, instigate "resistance to land and protect Taiwan", and strengthen training for war preparations to enhance armaments and defense capabilities. Some Western politicians also took the opportunity to exaggerate the mainland's "military threat" to Taiwan, clamoring that they will provide weapons to the Taiwan authorities to "confront" the mainland. Taiwan's representative to the United States Hsiao Mei-qin recently published an article in the US "Washington Post ", thanking the United States for its rock-solid commitment to Taiwan during the Ukrainian crisis, and the Ukrainians' determination and resilience after the Russian attack inspired Taiwan. In recent years, Taiwan has conducted a comprehensive review of its self-defense capabilities, reorganized its training procedures, reserve forces, and military budget, and prioritized asymmetric combat power to prevent China from making wrong assessments like Russia did.
On March 24, Chen Mingtong, the head of Taiwan’s security department, made a big fuss at Taiwan’s “Legislative Council”. He claimed that Taiwan’s inspiration from the Russia-Ukraine War was that “self-help is God’s help.” If the People’s Liberation Army takes military action against Taiwan, Taiwan “can sustain As long as it lasts as long as it lasts", don't treat Taiwan as a "weak chicken".
On March 24, the Ministry of National Defense of China took advantage of the situation in Ukraine to "hype hot spots" and "exist", deliberately playing up the so-called "threat" from the mainland, raising the tone of cross-strait confrontation and seeking "independence", and even arrogantly advocating The Behavior of War responded that such acts of "seeking independence by relying on foreign countries" and "seeking independence by force" are harming Taiwan and will only push Taiwan into the abyss of disaster.
It's useless to say more. The Taiwan Air Force stated on the evening of March 27 that on the 27th, two H-6 aircraft and one Yun-8 long-range jamming aircraft entered Taiwan's Southwest Air Defense Identification Zone on the 27th. Turn back after the southeast airspace.
Mainland has told Taiwan many times: 1. If you don't return to the " 1992 Consensus ", you won't be able to discuss anything. 2. The reunification of the two sides of the strait is inevitable, and the Watchtower authorities have a clear understanding of the situation. 3. The mainland has introduced policies to benefit Taiwan from time to time, and strives for "peaceful reunification". The method has been exhausted, and "martial reunification" is not ruled out.. 4. The PLA is always ready. 5. The problem of unification will not be dragged down from generation to generation.
knows this, Taiwan is no longer unreasonable to cause trouble, if something happens, I really can't blame the mainland. (Inoue Frog)
