China’s Growing Military Clout Over Taiwan Contests US Military Domination In Indo-Pacific: Report

<p><strong>New Delhi: </strong>China&rsquo;s provocative actions against Taiwan this month are seen part of psychological operations by Beijing to challenge the West over self-declared control of the democratically governed island.</p> <p>Apparently exhibiting its military capacity to take over Taiwan by force, China ramped up aerial incursions over Taiwan&rsquo;s air defence identification zone with 149 sorties by People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) fighters and nuclear capable bombers in the first four days of October.</p> <p><strong>READ</strong>: <strong><a href="https://ift.tt/3A6G0ko 7 Decades, Thousands Have Been Victims Of Sexual Abuse Within French Catholic Church: Report</a></strong></p> <p>Beijing demonstrated its military clout before an exercising armada of the US-UK-Japan warships in the vicinity.</p> <p>The aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan, USS Carl Vinson, HMS Elizabeth along with Japanese, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian ships are exercising between Taiwan and the coast of Okinawa.</p> <p>China&rsquo;s provocative maneuvers against Taiwan, according to top diplomats, seem to be directed at the domestic audience rather than serious war threat to Taipei.</p> <p>The military response by China, facing a slew of domestic challenges, including a biggest real estate company drowning in debt to power crunch, inflation and slowdown in manufacturing sector, is aimed at diverting public attention and fire up nationalistic sentiments.</p> <p>The aim of the recent aerial intrusions, as per Beijing watchers, is to convey the signal that no one will come to Taipei&rsquo;s support if China decides to militarily take over the strategic island.</p> <p>The ramping up of aerial intrusions is also a message to the US allies in the region mainly Japan and Australia - the key partners in the Quad grouping.</p> <p>The rising military clout of PLA, particularly in the sea dimension, is posing a threat to the US domination of Indo-Pacific as well as forcing Japan to move towards shedding of its pacificist doctrine, Hindustan Times reported.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ</strong>: <strong><a href="https://ift.tt/3mvXAJY From Last Two Decades Are Of No Use Says Taliban's High Education Minister Haqqani</a></strong></p> <p>If China outmaneuvers the US on Taiwan, then Washington&rsquo;s credibility will take a further hit after the withdrawal disaster in Afghanistan post the Taliban taking control of the war-ravaged nation.</p> <p>It is reasonable to assume that objectives of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) &nbsp;are Senkaku Islands and so-called South Tibet land dispute with India after Taiwan as state sovereignty, territorial integrity and national reunification are part of declared Chinese core interests in 2011.</p>