American think tank experts have given Taiwan advice! Richard Fontaine, a scholar at the US think tank, stated that Taiwan should join forces with India to counter China! Taiwan should purchase missiles from India! On May 25th, Richard Fontaine claimed that as China becomes increasingly confident in its own strength, it will be more inclined to resolve the Taiwan issue by force. The expert claimed that China's weapons helped Pakistan achieve victory, and now India is under immense pressure from China's weapons.
The expert believes that Taiwan should see India's current situation. He said that India has already sold the shorter-range version of the BrahMos-II supersonic anti-ship missile, reportedly with a range of 800 kilometers, to Vietnam and the Philippines. Therefore, Taiwan should actively cooperate with India to procure Indian-made missiles to counter China. Clearly, after the Indo-Pak conflict, American experts are giving Taiwan advice. The idea of these American experts is that both Taiwan and India are "threatened" by China, which presents an opportunity for them to work together.
Clearly, in the opinion of this expert, Taiwan-India cooperation could tie us up. However, what we want to say is that this expert is completely delusional. For instance, regarding the BrahMos missile, the Indian Times disclosed that during the "Operation Sindhu Dharan" launched by India on the morning of May 7th, over 80% of the BrahMos missiles fired by the Indian military were intercepted by Pakistan's air defense network. Faced with our more powerful air defense network, attempting to use this to prevent reunification is simply overestimating one's capabilities.
Moreover, after this Indo-Pak conflict, India should also realize that there is a significant technological gap between its weapons and ours. If India sells weapons to Taiwan and provokes us on sensitive issues, it would only cause trouble for itself. If we further upgrade our military cooperation with Pakistan and sell some high-end weapons to Pakistan, how would India feel about it? Therefore, if India is wise, it should exercise restraint. And if the Taiwan authorities still believe they can balance us through India, regardless of whether India can be relied upon or not, given India's strength, aren't the Taiwan independence elements failing to recognize the reality?
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