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              Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Fujian not long ago and demanded that cross-strait relations "promote fusion, facilitate fusion, and promote fusion with affection", playing a "warmth card", but the CCP sent another 20 PLA ​​military planes to disturb Taiwan a day later. It set a record for the highest number of sorties in a single day. Analysts pointed out that these confirmed the "gray zone threat" mentioned in the "Quadrennial General Review of National Defense (QDR)" issued by the Ministry of National Defense recently, indicating the CCP's threat to Taiwan. There is a growing trend.



Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense first mentions "response to gray zone threats"

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense recently released the latest edition of the "Four-year General Review of National Defense (QDR)", adding for the first time a special chapter "Responding to Gray Zone Threats. In an interview with Voice of America, Wang Kunyi, chairman of the Taiwan Institute of International Strategic Studies, pointed out that in the military field, the gray area means a buffer zone to avoid direct war; in the non-military field, it means "mixed warfare", including psychological warfare. The "three wars" of legal warfare and public opinion warfare are now called "cognitive warfare"; in addition, information warfare such as hacking, election intervention, economic coercion, and various types of aircraft and ship intrusion Deterrence and deterrence are both gray area behaviors.



Zhao Wei, the editor-in-chief of Taiwan Liaoyuan Publishing, who specializes in publishing military books, told VOA: "The purpose of the gray zone is to shake the morale of the people in Taiwan, even including the national army; the second is to deplete the country’s military preparedness and erode Taiwan’s country. Security. In this way (the Chinese Communist Party) is doing it, mainly through cognitive warfare, information warfare, military aircraft and ship harassment, etc., military aircraft come almost every day, and even fishing boats used to surround outer islands, and now they even come Penghu, etc., these are the gray area methods they (the CCP) use to threaten you (Taiwan) to make judgments, see how you respond, and then consume your morale and national budget, etc."

More than 60% believe that China will not attack Taiwan

In addition, during the two sessions of China, Adm. Phillip Davidson, the commander of the US Indo-Pacific, even boldly and clearly stated at the hearing of the US Senate Armed Services Committee that Taiwan is part of China's ambitions and that the PLA may attack Taiwan in the next six years. Nevertheless, a recent poll in Taiwan shows that more than 60% of people believe that China will not attack Taiwan. Why are Taiwanese still so optimistic under the threat of PLA military aircraft?