The National People’s Congress in China is being closely followed in Taipei. Tensions between China and Taiwan have spiked in recent weeks due to an incident which took place in the waters surrounding Kinmen — a group of Taiwanese-controlled islands just kilometers from the shores of China. In the incident, a Taiwanese coastguard pursuit of a Chinese fishing vessel led to the death of two Chinese fishermen.
China’s coastguard has increased patrols around Kinmen. Taiwanese officials say that is raising the risk of an accident spiralling into conflict. Our correspondent James Chater reports now from Kinmen, Taiwan.
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If China chose peace Taiwan would be their best mates. The CCP has a personality problem.
China has the right to defend itself 🙂
Taiwan is not state, stop lie.
fujianese are a chinese dialect that is spoken in fujian province of china as well as in taiwan, because tawanese are almost all immigrants from fujian province, it is not a language, but a chinese local dialect
Don't wake up the sleeping giants GERMANY,JAPAN,U.S.A they are hungry for wars.
China WILL surely regret this things SOON, instead of bullying your neighboring state why not help them and bridge a good diplomatic and military relation they have conflicts from all sides of their territory is Xi doesnt get tired of this?
OMG how dare the Chinese coast guard increase patrols of their coast!!
Is china going to have more spies in speedboats running from the coastguard?
Surely they'll say it is not chinas fault, but clearly they are instigating this. Winnie the poo is really shameless
China is just a bully and making things complicated because of they are greedy with power
Taiwan: i hate them because they ate my dog
China: they ate my dog 1st.
World war 3, started over fishing rights…
Hear the paper tiger roar! Grrrrrrrrrrrr
Meanwhile Indians will populate Taiwan by going for work …😇
Any conflict that arise worldwide involving china, its ALWAYS china's fault. lol!
It all depends on whether China want to invade Taiwan and there’s absolutely no way Taiwan can or able to defend itself and even with the help of other nations. Pls don’t try to instigate others to start war in this region where we’re all living in harmony.
Mmm. China’s aggressive naval vessels behavior continue at Taiwan’s Kennan island. This Chinese belligerent behavior is driving a wedge between them & western nations that they desperately need. Alternative manufactures to democratic nations & domestically!
Kinmen island is just 10 kilometers off the coast of Xiamen city, Fujian province.
The 2 killed Chinese fishermen are not from Xiamen, not even from Fujian province, they are from Sichuan, a province thousand miles away. In a word, they are just some poor guys try to push their luck and make some extra money during these cold days of Chinese new year, they are not local. The locals know far better that never go fishing at these waters because it's very easy to accidentally cross the so called "border line" and when they do, Taiwan coast guard ships will hunt them down ruthlessly, their catch and boat will be confiscated and they must pay a ridiculously high amount of fine to get their boat back, if they survived the hunt.
On the contrary, Kinmen fishermen never had this kind of worry, for the sake of peaceful reunion and bigger pictures, for decades, Chinese coast guard simply never show up, untill now.
Once the US can build the chips without Taiwan they are in trouble. Until then the Chinese will wait. The main thing to understand here is that China can't invade Taiwan without turning it into Ukraine, The Chinese are still many years away from being able to sustain a precision air campaign which would be required to degrade and defang the Taiwanese from making the cost to invade too high. Drones and technology will make this possible in the years to come, but Taiwan can also do something crazy like develop nuclear weapons if they are forced into a corner. Taiwan can still do a lot of damage to China via its arsenal of cruise missiles, but it will ultimately end up a numbers game and Taiwan is like Ukraine a long hot war favors China/Russia there is just basic math, and they have more of everything. In the end hopefully, there wi be a peaceful solution and Taiwan and China can reach some type of union status where both countries operate separate but share a common currency, and have a "one China, two systems" arrangement
Something big is brewing that's for sure.
they even blame Ph. for nothing.
How much percent of GDP does Germany spend on military ? And U.S.?
🇵🇭🇹🇼🇺🇦🇯🇵🇺🇸
News news news. You are mouthpieces of the governments and just control the masses and ease us into wars that benefits governements only. I hate the "news"
Taiwan number one!
Pls don't lose Kinmen to CCP 🇨🇳 Communist China.
Pls don't lose Kinmen to CCP 🇨🇳 Communist China.
How did they die?? Don't tell me they drowned 😳🤨
If the Kinmen Islander..is offered a vote…they will vote to return to China..😊
The fear is coming only from the West. This fear stems from their inability to use Taiwan as leverage against China.
have u seen dog fight. there wont be fighting just barking
Cheenqs get beat downs even in they backyard…
By Taiwan and Philippines..
US, on the other hand, gets respect even thousands of kilometers from home..
Kinmen island isnt ‘closer to China than to Taiwan’; its more like kinmen island is in the middle of Xiamen – a major coastal industrial city of china. If youve been to xiamen, kinmen island’s location is a bit of an eye opener. I had understood there is no real civilian resident presence on kinmen anymore – i thought most civilians on kinmen had been relocated to Taiwan proper and residents only visited intermittently to check on their properties.
Its also worth noting the chinese coastguard is not part of the PLA but is controlled by the local provincial government; which means the chinese coastguard does a lot of dumb things, for dumb reasons, that are often not sanctioned, or ordered, by the Chinese central government. On the chinese side, there are a lot of people doing things at sea that they have not been ordered to do but which they assume are what the people at the top want them to do. Which is a recipe for chaos.
China again ? 😂
China will put coast guard ships in the moon. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
China needs to keep their fishermen on their own side
Taiwan is part of 🇨🇳
China is not savage country they would not destroy Taiwan
Taiwan killed 2 fisherman of china and behaving like a innocent
china's leader hiked the defence budget. Why? Who are they defending themselves against?
Call it what it is: The Attack Budget.
I ❤TAIWAN🥰Mabuhay