Lai Qingde declared that he would not accept "the first war is the final war", and Ma Yingjiu's office criticized him bitterly: he tends to seek war!

Source: Global Network

[Global Network Report] According to the report of Taiwan media such as China Times News Network on June 17, the Army Military Academy (the name of Whampoa Military Academy after its resumption in Taiwan) held its 100th anniversary celebration on June 16. Lai Qingde, the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities, attended the event and delivered a speech. He claimed that he could not accept the saying that "the first battle is the end of the war", which caused external criticism. Xiao Xucen, CEO of the Ma Ying jeou Foundation, bitterly criticized that from the content of the speech, it can be seen that Lai Qingde tends to seek war. Luo Youzhi, a senior media person in the island, directly criticized Lai Qingde as "too scary and crazy".

Lai Qingde Declares Not to Accept "The First War Is the Final War"

According to Taiwan media reports, Ma Ying jeou quoted the report of the Taiwan Defense and Security Research Institute in his previous speech, saying that the mainland's attack on Taiwan was "the first battle is the final battle". Lai Qingde claimed on the 16th that "we cannot divide the enemy from ourselves" and did not accept the saying that "the first battle is the final battle".

In response to this statement, Xiao Xucen, CEO of the Ma Ying jeou Foundation, released a press release on the 16th, saying that Lai Qingde's speech showed a tendency to seek war, but the people needed leaders in Taiwan to avoid war, not leaders in Taiwan to provoke war.

Xiao Xucen asked, "The first battle is the final battle" is the report of the Institute of Defense Policy under Cai Yingwen's tenure, which points out the strategic goal of the mainland military to win, so Lai Qingde accused Cai Yingwen of this research during the period of capitulationism? Xiao Xucen also said that what people want is peace and prosperity, not the brink of war. Leaders in Taiwan should seek good fortune and avoid bad luck, let people live a peaceful and prosperous life, not deliberately provocative, and confuse the public with specious words.

Luo Youzhi wrote on Facebook on the 16th, saying that with basic military knowledge, "the first battle is the final battle" is a strategic logic, and many things can be done without provoking war, which has nothing to do with capitulationism! "Just don't fight, just remember the horrors of war", Luo Youzhi mentioned that "the first battle is the final battle" is also used to study the strategy of the mainland and how to deal with advance and retreat. "You interpret it to me as' capitulationism ', like' fighting to one soldier and one soldier '". He said directly that Lai Qingde was too terrible and crazy.

In addition, Guo Zhengliang, a former public opinion representative of Taiwan, said on the island's internal affairs program on the 16th that Ma Yingjiu's quotation was to emphasize avoiding war, and Lai Qingde said this was "really low" on the Huangpu school anniversary.

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US senior officials threatened that once the Chinese mainland attacked Taiwan, the US would turn Taiwan into a "hell"

[Global Times comprehensive report] "The US military plans to prevent the Chinese mainland from attacking Taiwan through the 'hell scene'", a signed column of the Washington Post on the 10th disclosed this as the title, and the new commander of the US Indo Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, told the author Josh Rogin during the Singapore Shangri La Dialogue (hereinafter referred to as the "Hong Kong Club"), Once the Chinese mainland's fleet crosses the Taiwan Strait to "invade" Taiwan, the U.S. military will implement a strategy called "Hell View", deploy thousands of unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships and unmanned aircraft, and strive for time for Taiwan, the United States and its partner forces to comprehensively counter attack. Experts interviewed by the Global Times on the 11th said that the description of the US generals was a naked threat to China. Whether it was manned or unmanned, the US military's intervention in the Taiwan Strait by force would inevitably suffer unbearable consequences.

Samuel Paparo, the new commander of the US Indo Pacific Command

The Washington Post article said that it would be a very difficult decision for any American president to send American men and women to defend the "small democratic society on the other side of the earth". Therefore, Paparo said that the priority plan of the United States is to deter mainland China from attacking. "What they (the People's Liberation Army) want to bring to the world is a fast and fierce war, which will be fought before all countries in the world can take action together," Paparo declared, "My job is to ensure that from now to 2027 and beyond, the U.S. military and allies can win." At the beginning of May, Paparo succeeded John Aguilino as the commander of the U.S. Indo Pacific Command. Just like his predecessor, Paparo vigorously played up the "China threat theory", and this column is the latest example.

Paparo claimed that the possible strategy of the Chinese mainland is to launch a "large-scale attack" on Taiwan without any early warning. The key to defeating this plan is the strategy of the United States called "Hell View", that is, once the PLA "invasion" fleet starts to cross the Taiwan Sea, the U.S. military will deploy thousands of unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships and unmanned aerial vehicles. "I want to use a series of confidential capabilities to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hell," Paparo said.

The article mentioned that in March this year, the US Department of Defense announced a "replicator" plan to invest 1 billion dollars in large-scale unmanned combat, that is, to build unmanned surface ships and UAVs for this task. On the "replicator" plan of the US military, Zhu Qichao, a researcher of the National Defense Science and Technology Strategic Research Think Tank of China National University of Defense Technology, said in an interview with the Global Times during the "incense meeting" that, "A large number of decentralized deployment of this low-cost unmanned system by the US military will pose a great threat. Its purpose is to consume the opponent's high-value ammunition, or even make the opponent unbearable. This is a new mode of future war".

Unmanned combat has gradually become an important trend in future wars, and the US military has also learned lessons from the Russian Ukrainian battlefield. "At present, all countries attach great importance to the research and development of unmanned systems. For example, the United States and Australia have disclosed a variety of unmanned boats some time ago. At present, the displacement of unmanned submarines and unmanned boats is relatively small, which is more suitable for operations in the Taiwan Strait." Military expert Zhang Xuefeng told reporters of the Global Times on the 11th, "But the description of the US Indian Pacific commander's' hell view 'is a naked threat to China. In fact, the US scientific research capacity and industrial production capacity cannot make it achieve the scale described by Paparo in three or four years."

"China is no inferior to the United States in the research and development of UAV systems, and even leads the United States in many fields. If the United States has the ability and courage to deploy thousands of unmanned submarines, unmanned boats and UAVs in the Taiwan Strait, China can also deploy thousands of unmanned submarines (UAVs) near the base groups of the first and even the second island chains of the United States Unmanned submarines, unmanned surface ships and unmanned aerial vehicles, "Zhang Xuefeng said that once the US military dares to intervene in the Taiwan Strait by force, whether it is manned or unmanned systems, the US will suffer the consequences it cannot bear, and its actions will also be doomed to failure.

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