Fears of all out war surge as China unveils new wonder weapon to
isolate Taiwan As per South China Morning Post, 16 of the DF-17s were on
parade on the October 1 National Day celebrations. Zhou Chenming, a
Beijing based military expert said the DF-17 had extended China’s range
and gave China the ability to prevent the US aircraft carrier strike
group from intervening. Mr Zhou said: “The DF-17 is designed as an
offensive weapon amid Beijing’s defensive strategy to build a fence
outside the Taiwan Strait to stop US warships from entering and
intervening in any possible war between the PLA and the Taiwanese
military.”To get more china breaking news, you can visit shine news official website.
A military insider explained: “The DF-17 is an innovative and cost-saving weapon based on the basics of DF-15 and DF-16 ballistic missiles that were being developed to cope with the independence-leaning movements driven by Chen Shui-bian.” Mr Chen was the first Taiwanese President from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party ending 55 years of rule from the Kuomintang (KMT).
The KMT formally ruled China until losing to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War.The group fled to Taiwan which they declared was still the Republic of China (ROC) which they say is the legal government of China. The CCP founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which they also claim is the legal government of China.Taiwanese politics is split into two loose camps - pan-green which includes the the Democratic Progressives who favour independence and pan-blues who favour unification.
Tsai Ing-wen is the current President in Taipei and believes the island’s de facto independence means a formal declaration of independence, which would cross a red line for the PRC, is unnecessary. The insider added: “The successful development of the DF-17 will also inspire the People’s Liberation Army to add the HGV technology to other DF series missiles, because China has tested so many kinds of HGV over the past few years.
”Hong Kong based Song
Zhongpin, a military expert said the DF-17 was capable of damaging US
shields throughout the entire region: “All the DF-15, DF-16 and DF-17s
could build a comprehensive strike network covering everywhere from
Taiwan island to the neighbouring countries around mainland China,
especially the US’s overseas military bases in the region. “The
superiority of the DF-17 is its hypersonic warhead which could penetrate
missile defence networks, radar and early-warning systems, and hit some
difficult targets that the DF-15 and DF-16 might be unable to do.” The
US and Russia are developing hypersonic technologies but so far China is
the only nation able to produce an active weapon.
