Will China launch an attack on Taiwan? | VPRO Documentary
77Is China taking inspiration from Putin, and will soon launch an attack on Taiwan?
This is a question that has been on our minds again since the war in Ukraine. Filmmaker and former China correspondent Floris-Jan van Luyn travels to Taiwan for Frontline and visits the island that has long been threatened by China, and abandoned by the rest of the world.
He encounters a friend without friends, intimidated and ignored, and yet one of us. What do you do, when you are alone?
A front line runs right through Taiwan. Every time China threatens the island - which has been happening with increasing regularity since 1949 - and the world "discovers" that the conflict between China and Taiwan is still current, the call for a peaceful solution is as loud in Taiwan as the call for a sharp independent course. It drives people apart and plays into China's hands.
Recently, Member of Parliament Sjoerd Sjoerdsma was in Taiwan with an international party to discuss a sanctions package that would make China shy away from invading Taiwan, but so far a good portion of the world supports Taiwan only informally. In fact, Taiwan, recognized by only 14 mini-states, stands alone.
Many Taiwanese wonder: How is it possible for Taiwanese democracy to become increasingly isolated, while the Chinese dictatorship is allowed to continue to threaten and provoke?
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