14 January 2026

All the weapons China doesn’t want Taiwan to have

Grant Newsham

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has all the pieces needed for an assault on Taiwan utilizing air, naval and ground forces, along with missiles, electronic and cyber weaponry. And it has been rehearsing, not exercising, rehearsing.

The report doesn’t much mention the Chinese “fifth column” in place in Taiwan or the ongoing subversion – “entropic warfare” – aimed at breaking apart Taiwan’s society and the citizenry’s will to resist a Chinese invasion.

However, this focus on Chinese military capabilities refers to what China can do to Taiwan. As important is what Taiwan can do to China, especially to a PLA invasion force coming across the Taiwan Strait.

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