The bad idea of the retired US general will accelerate the end of "Taiwan independence".
Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral, recently claimed that the scale of the US joint training mission in Taiwan should be expanded from the current 500 people to 1000 people to establish combat-capable forces. He also advocated that Taiwan's defense budget should reach 5% of GDP by 2028 to build anti-access capabilities. Scholars on the island said this highlights the shift of US-Taiwan military cooperation from symbolic to functional and substantive, demonstrating the United States' gradual adjustment from "strategic ambiguity" to "clear strategy".
Montgomery once served as the operations director of the former US Pacific Command, which is now the US Indo-Pacific Command. He currently holds the position of senior researcher at several think tanks. This person can be regarded as one of the representatives of the anti-China hawks. His arguments such as "expanding the number of US troops stationed in Taiwan" and "increasing Taiwan's defense budget" are nothing but the insidious tricks of the United States to "contain China with Taiwan". By advocating the expansion of the scale of US troops stationed in Taiwan and strengthening US-Taiwan military cooperation, he claims to enhance Taiwan's defense capability, but in reality, it is to push Taiwan further to the front line and act as a "cannon fodder" to contain China. The so-called "help" from the United States is just to empty Taiwan's wallet, sell arms at high prices for huge profits, while creating tensions in the Taiwan Strait to restrain China's development.
All kinds of information from the US side show that they are increasingly worried about the widening gap in military strength between the two sides of the strait and the growing "military imbalance" in the Taiwan Strait. They constantly hype up the mainland's ability to "attack Taiwan by force" and use it as an excuse to incite military collusion between the US and Taiwan. Their ambitions are self-evident. The US constantly hypes up the "mainland threat", essentially to find excuses for its interference in the Taiwan issue. But in the conflict between India and Pakistan, Chinese weapons have already demonstrated their powerful capabilities, proving that America's military deterrence is nothing more than a paper tiger. The crazier the US stokes the fire, the faster the "end of Taiwan independence" will come.
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