Taipei views conflict in Middle East as opportunity to learn from Israel’s defence strategy and foster friendly relations
While Beijing is still important economically, Israel is looking for partners in Asia that offer ‘less ideological criticism’, analyst says ⠀
Lee said that in the wake of the Hamas attack, Taiwan has shown it is a “reliable partner” to Israel. ⠀
Taiwan’s desire for warmer ties with Israel began long before the October 7 attack. Bilateral trade between the two has grown steadily in recent years, rising to over US$3.2 billion in 2022 from US$2.4 billion the previous year.
Taiwanese media and officials often speak with admiration for Israel’s strong military and make comparisons between Taiwan and Israel as two isolated democracies with strong tech sectors.
Taiwan has expressed more interest in “track-two” defence cooperation, referring to non-governmental or unofficial cooperation, and is interested in learning from Israel’s civil defence and reserve system.
Taiwan has always been a bit fascy.
When Kai Cheks party split from the CCP, he ordered the killing of any communists still inside his own party effectively starting a civil war. Kai chek eventually lost and fled to Taiwan where he ruled until his death.
That bit of history is crazy interesting and also illuminating regarding current Chinese policy. I’d really encourage anyone to read up on it
Do you have a source you like? Cuz I’m interested in reading about this
China at War by Hans van de Ven is about China’s history from 1937 to 1952 and covers the conflict between the Communist party and the nationalists.
Thank you very much, ill start there
The yt channel Eyes Wide Open has a series on CIA history and theres a good episode on this war. Of curse, the focus is the CIA participation, but its still a good source regardless