A recent satellite photo of a remote training ground in China captured a mockup of Taiwan’s Government buildings.
The image has experts rethinking how an invasion of the island state would play out with some claiming China could successfully execute such an exercise in minutes, Knewz.com has learned.
Experts, like United States-based think-tank head Dmitri Alperovitch, suspect China’s saber-rattling may just be an elaborate ruse.
Supporting this idea is the satellite image depicting a streetscape around the breakaway state’s seat of power.
According to Alperovich, fast infiltration with helicopter teams and prepositioned agents on the ground can unseat the country’s administration in a “lightning” strike.
The next step would be to take control of ports while additional teams enter the capital, Taipei from the river, and help secure the government buildings.
This entire action from start to finish could take as little as 30 minutes, says Alperovitch (via Australia’s News.com).
![China's Mockup of Taiwans Parliamentry Buildings (1)](https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/31/Chinas-Mockup-of-Taiwans-Parliamentry-Buildings-1.jpg)
Making this scenario evermore likely is the fact that the Taiwan Strait is a tempestuous corridor and is only calm enough for full-scale military crossing with tanks and troop carriers for a few weeks per year.
Should China overcome this challenge it will still face the island’s lack of beachheads that are suitable for large-scale military landings. Also, the island’s well-defended ports would compound the difficulty of a sea-based invasion.
Once on land, military movements are likely to be impeded by rough terrain, bottlenecking all movement by road and rail.
In the city, the island’s dense populations and congested city layouts would quickly devolve into street fighting.
![China attempts at a sea invasion could present all kinds of problems](https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/31/China-attempts-at-a-sea-invasion-could-present-all-kinds-of-problems-.jpg)
Aside from the hurdles Taiwan‘s cities present, its wooded mountainous topography can easily conceal defending forces and allow for guerilla warfare.
Apperovitch likened a potential assault by China on the island state to the opening stages of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when a large company of Spetsnaz troops crossed the border in low-flying helicopters.
Their first goal was to gain control of the capital’s main airport. Once this objective was achieved the transport hub would have been used as a launch pad for a secondary operation that would have overthrown the government.
The US, however, detected the plan and Zelensky’s forces disabled the facility. In so doing, Ukraine laid waste to Vladimir Putin’s ten-day invasion plan.
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It is not the first time a satellite made such a thought-provoking discovery in the Chinese desert. On
January 12, 2024, Knewz.com reported on a dummy U.S. warship used for target practice.
The photograph in question depicted a silhouette with the dimensions and length of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier in a desert environment in China.
The article reported:
“Confirming suspicions that the figure is intended to represent the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the silhouette also has a structure in the exact same place as the one on the aircraft carrier’s island along with the four catapult tracks and includes the wide angular stern.”
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