TAIPEI โ Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun.
Itโs not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, with Chinese troops storming the beaches. Instead, the Peopleโs Liberation Army, Chinaโs two-million-strong military, has launchedย a form of โgray zoneโ warfare. In this irregular type of conflict, which stops short of an actual shooting war, the aim is to subdue the foe through exhaustion.
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