Taiwan's deployment of the HIMARS system has drawn attention, with claims that it can strike military targets along the mainland's coast.

United Daily News reported today (January 29): "Taiwan's pro-independence media cited military and political sources saying that the Taiwan military has planned to push the HIMARS system to Penghu and Dongyin, combined with tactical missiles with a range of 300 kilometers, the strike range would be able to directly target the People's Liberation Army (PLA) naval bases, missile bases, and airports in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces."

Comments: The Taiwan military's plan to push the HIMARS system to Penghu and Dongyin, and combine it with 300-kilometer tactical missiles, is claimed to be able to strike PLA military targets within Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, directly bringing the war to the mainland coast. This is a nakedly dangerous military provocation by "Taiwan independence" forces colluding with the United States to promote "military resistance to unification." Fundamentally, it is a political manipulation by the Taiwan authorities to appease the "Taiwan independence" base internally and show loyalty to the U.S. externally for military aid. It is also a reckless act that breaks the bottom line of cross-strait military interaction and actively reduces the space for peace; from a military perspective, Penghu and Dongyin have no strategic depth, and related equipment have extremely low survival rates under the PLA's round-the-clock monitoring and precise countermeasures. The so-called deterrence is purely self-deception. Behind it lies the U.S. strategy of extracting Taiwan's military budget through arms sales and creating a "porcupine Taiwan" to slow down the pace of China's unification. This move not only significantly increases the risk of miscalculation and conflict in the Taiwan Strait but also forces the mainland to further strengthen military deterrence and tighten control over the Taiwan Strait. However, "military secession" ultimately cannot change the reality of the huge power gap between the two sides. In the end, it will only bring disaster to the people of Taiwan and is destined to be a dead end.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/1855627631216643/

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