If you can’t get out. Go into the mountains.
Yes exactly. America has said repeatedly that Taiwan needs to have a defensive plan that will be able to actively deter the invasion for more than one month. This is the issue and why Taiwan has focused on developing their indigenous defence industry.
The risk for everyone is China facing resistance and going MAD. Hence Americans request for a Taiwan defensive initiative. It gives America time to aim its weapons system at mainland China not plan to invade and defend Taiwan. Stop the threat at the source.
It’s getting real!
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It takes a month to aim weapons at China?
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I drove past about a thousand foot soliders today, on the march around the Hualien outskirts. Never seen that before.
Likely targets are listed.
And more tough talk.
The Diaoyutai are an inseparable part of the sacred territory of the Republic of China!
What actually is an air defense zone? And can it be ‘breached’?
So the ADIZ was breached when
A: Chinese planes flew in Chinese airspace
B: Chinese planes flew over international airspace
C: Chinese planes flew over Taiwans airspace
The Answer I believe is B because if it was C the headline would be “Chinese plane breaches Taiwan airspace” or something like that
Wait what?
Taiwan’s ADIZ overlaps into mainland China?
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Well China is a part of Taiwan. 
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The premise of the ADIZ is that planes in it should identify themselves and their flight plan. There is no premise that the planes shouldn’t be there.
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I’ve read that the easiest way to think of an ADIZ isn’t as an area belonging to a country, more that they are watching that space so they’re aware of any threats. Think of it like where the radar sees. Taiwan has Kinmen County, so they point their radar inland so if China decided to send any planes our way, they’re ready earlier.
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Cindy Sui on the BBC is a total China shill. She has always been so biased fro Beijing.
A strong message for Biden
By Cindy Sui, BBC News, Taipei
China refrained from flying into Taiwan’s south-west air defence identification zone for years, even though it had the right to do so - such zones are not recognised in international law. So the Taiwanese government calls China’s flyovers “incursions”, but technically they are not.
Analysts believe China wants to show dissatisfaction towards what it sees as former US President Donald Trump and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen changing the status quo over the past four years.
Just because there’s now a change in US president, doesn’t mean Beijing will stop asserting what it has long seen as its right to fly in its own backyard. It also wants to warn President Tsai against taking further steps towards formal independence.
Perhaps more importantly, Beijing wants to send a strong message early on in Joe Biden’s presidency that the Taiwan issue is dangerous and remind him not to play with fire by emboldening Ms Tsai, as the Trump administration did.
Instead it’s hoping Mr Biden will mitigate the risk by scaling down support for Taiwan, or at least sending a message to Taipei not to be a troublemaker. Regardless of the reason, it may be hard to convince Beijing to return to the gentler old days.
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Yeah, Taiwan News is sick of her too:
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Disappointing, they need to fix this. FYI for everyone there’s a link to file a complaint with BBC at the bottom of the Taiwan News article. 
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Sui and Ralph Jennings should meet up.