They seem to have taken a page out of Winston Churchill's and Britain's playbook during WWII. Taiwan Strait tensions: Civilians in Taiwan learning self defence, guerrilla warfare - The Week
KINMEN, A GROUP of islands governed by Taiwan, and Xiamen, a port city in China, are barely 15km apart. These two critical frontiers are the first to feel the impact of cross-strait tensions. It has been no different this time. In the last one month, armies of both countries have propped up their artillery guns, stocked up ammunition and readied defence deployments and positions.[SNIP]
On September 1, the Kinmen defence command spotted a drone in restricted air space just after midday. It was given a warning and when this was disregarded, it was shot down—a first during the ongoing tensions. This action demonstrated the seriousness with which Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is treating the continued violations of the Taiwan Strait’s median line and Taiwanese airspace by an aggressive China.
As for what the Brits prepared to do when faced with the Third Reich bearing down on them, you can see my post Section D, from 2018, in which I discuss Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat. That is a book I can highly recommend.
I wish the Taiwanese well. But as they are an island nation, I am unclear as to how we can resupply them in the event of an invasion in the way that we have been supporting Ukraine.
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