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Military Operations

Independence and War

China believes that Taiwan’s democratically-elected government is moving the island towards a declaration of formal independence. However, the Taiwan President, Tsai Ing-wen, has repeatedly stressed it is already an independent country called the Republic of China, its formal name.

Double disgrace

What was said on the subject by Opposition leaders could be contemptuously ignored, but it would be a national disgrace to overlook the observations of Lt Gen DS Hooda, under whose operational direction that cross-border foray had been conducted.