Hong Kong. October 6th. INTERFAX - Currently, Beijing already has the capabilities to resolve the Taiwan issue with the help of military force and will be fully ready for this by 2025, said the head of Taiwan's defense ministry, Qiu Guozheng.
"By 2025, China will be fully prepared for a full-scale invasion of Taiwan," he told lawmakers when considering the $8.6 billion military budget.
He noted: "Now he already has such opportunities, but it will not be easy for him to start a war, because he will have to take into account many other factors."
The official said that the current situation in the Taiwan Strait area is the most tense in the last 40 years.
As reported by the Taiwanese media with references to the authorities, flights of 56 aircraft of the PRC Air Force were noted in the Taiwan air defense zone on Monday. In total, it is noted in the reports, over the past four days, 148 military aircraft of mainland China have been recorded flying through the zone.
Such actions by the Chinese Air Force undermine regional peace, said the head of the cabinet of the Taiwanese administration, Su Zhenchang.
"Taiwan should be on the alert. China is getting more and more out of line. The world is witnessing repeated cases of China undermining regional peace and putting pressure on Taiwan," he told reporters in Taipei.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Sunday last week: "The United States is very concerned about the provocative military activities of the People's Republic of China near Taiwan, which destabilizes the situation, is fraught with miscalculations and undermines regional peace and stability."
US President Joe Biden said that the US and China must comply with the previously reached "Taiwan agreement".
"I spoke with (Chinese President) Xi Jinping about Taiwan. We agree ... we will abide by the Taiwan agreement. We made it clear that I don't think he (Beijing- IF) should do anything other than comply with the agreement," Biden told reporters in connection with the strained relations between mainland China and the island.
Biden and Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation on September 9.
The President did not specify what kind of agreement he was talking about. The media, commenting on Biden's words, note that he apparently meant the documents on the establishment of diplomatic relations from 1979, in which Washington recognizes the existence of one China.
