Washington, Apr 15 (EFE).- The United States believes that the island of Taiwan would be “very vulnerable” to a possible Chinese air attack, indicate leaked Pentagon documents echoed on Saturday by The Washington Post.
Thus, the newspaper pointed out after analyzing the documents, the US believes that Taiwan is unlikely to thwart Chinese military air superiority in a possible conflict since the island’s officials doubt that its air defenses can “accurately detect the launches of missiles”.
Therefore, the Pentagon documents consider, China’s air force would have a much better chance of establishing early control of airspace.
In addition, tactics such as China’s use of civilian ships for military purposes have eroded the ability of US spy agencies to detect a potential invasion, according to leaked Pentagon assessments “containing troubling details,” the US government said. diary.
The revelations about Taiwan’s readiness for any possible conflict with China come at a complex time for US-China diplomatic relations.
The island is one of the biggest sources of conflict between the two countries, mainly because Washington is Taiwan’s main arms supplier and would be its biggest military ally in the event of a war with China.
Beijing has considered Taiwan a rogue province since Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949 after losing the civil war to the communist army.
Just yesterday The Washington Post also revealed other leaks indicating that the US government detected at least three other Chinese spy balloons apart from the one that flew over the United States at the end of January and was shot down over Atlantic waters on February 4.
The newspaper also obtained this image material from documents published on the Discord platform. The young man suspected of having disseminated that information there, Jack Teixeira, was charged this Friday for crimes of transmission and extraction of classified information.
The impact that this leak will have is still unknown, but some analysts have compared it to what the country experienced in 2013, when former analyst Edward Snowden exposed the scope of the massive espionage programs that the United States launched after the 9/11 attacks. September 2001.
