TE24 International Desk:
New Taipei City: Dressed in military disguise and armed with an assault rifle, “Professor E” looks from behind a car in a parking lot on the outskirts of Taipei, scanning the area and waiting for a traffic light. Ye is actually working in marketing and his weapon is a replica, but he attends a war workshop over the weekend to prepare for what he sees as a real threat to Chinese aggression. ..
“The war between Russia and Ukraine is an important reason why I came to this workshop,” Yeh, 47, a professor with callsign during training, told AFP during a break in the session. When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine in late February, he turned many of Taiwan’s darkest terrors.
Autonomous democracies live under constant threat from authoritarian China. China considers the island part of its territory and promises to occupy it one day. Yeo, however, was inspired by the war in Ukraine.
The resilience of the Ukrainian army has given him the hope that with the right tactics, Taiwan can also get a chance to defend itself from its many powerful neighbors. He’s not alone – organizers of the urban war course say their student enrollment has nearly quadrupled since February. The number of registrants for firearms and first aid courses has also increased.
Concerns about China were raised in Taiwan long before the Russian invasion. Max Chen, CEO of the organization that organized the workshop, said the “feeling of crisis” has increased among Taiwanese since 2020, when Chinese military aircraft regularly launched attacks on the island’s air defense identification zone. It’s the state. About 380 installations have been recorded this year, according to the AFP database. It will more than double in 2021 and this year too.
According to the US Department of Defense, China is far ahead of Taiwan militarily, with more than 1 million ground troops in 88,000 Taiwanese, 6,300 tanks in 800 and 1,600 tanks in 400. However, Ukraine provides an effective blueprint for how to reduce it. This inequality.
It clearly shows how difficult and costly the fight for city domination is for the invading forces এবং and most of Taiwan’s 23 million people live in urban areas. Ye and his 15 teammates leaned behind fragile buildings and vehicles to mimic attacks on enemy positions, competing in a stagnant pattern across parking lots and destroying Ukraine.
Try to practice some of the lessons learned from the cities you have learned. “The best defense is an attack,” Ye claims, and a brightly colored security vest trainer waits and takes notes. “Honestly, destroy the enemy and stop the enemy from advancing.” In the warehouse next door.
In the parking lot, 34-year-old Ruth Ram learned to fire a pistol for the first time. Lam, who works for an emergency car lighting manufacturer, said most European customers
“But it happened,” he says. He hopes that knowing how to use his gun can save him and his family from war and plans to continue targeting practice with his friends. “Prepare her umbrella before it rains,” she says. “I don’t know when anything will happen.”
In a May poll, 61.4% of respondents said they would remain armed in case of intrusion. “The will of the Ukrainian people to fight the aggressors has strengthened the Taiwanese resolve to defend their own city,” Chen Quan-ting, CEO of the Taiwanese think tank Nextgen Foundation, told AFP.
Former paratrooper Lin Pinu, who came to the urban warfare course to “improve his combat skills,” agreed. “Citizens of a country only if they have the will and determination to defend their country.
Can persuade the international community to help them, “said a 38-year-old man who believes the question is not whether you have been asked to use a new skill, but one day. Using the example of Hong Kong, where Beijing Trying to increase.
