US plans to evacuate its citizens from Taiwan due to tensions mounting with China

Washington: After learning lessons from the Ukraine conflict, the United States has started preparing to evacuate its citizens from Taiwan. Given the rising tensions with China, the United States has been working on this plan for the past six months. But, in the last two months, the US has increased its pace; this information was shared by three officials of the US intelligence system. The US State and Defense Ministries Departments categorically refused to comment on the issue. But However, theis US preparation indicates that China is preparing to attack Taiwan.

Due to the action taken by Russia in Ukraine, the United States has now been forced to think about Taiwan. As for the last few months, the relations between the United States and China are deteriorating, such a claim was made by an official of the US intel agency said on the condition of anonymity. Examples are tThe dangerous movement of the US American and Chinese fighter jets and destroyers in the South and East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait are a few instances of theses. Despite China’s warning, US representatives are visiting Taiwan. Besides, if the US-China conflict starts in future, Taiwan will easily become the target of Chinese attacks. This fear is haunting the United States, said theis official.

Moreover, US officials say China may attack Taiwan to assert its dominance in the next few years. If this happens, getting its citizens out safely from there will be a big challenge for the United States. According to the information from 2019, there are more than 80 thousand US citizens in Taiwan. Keeping in view that it is impossible to evacuate all of them quickly, for the last six months, the United States has been planning to evacuate its citizens from there for the last six months, and the according to information from US intelligence officials of the American intelligence system provided such information. However, in the last two months, the US has increased the pace of work on this plan, say these officials said.

Furthermore, after the devastating earthquake in Turkey in February, the Taiwan-based ‘American Institute of Taiwan’ department tweeted on social media. By saying ‘Preparing Now for Disaster’ i.e. ‘Preparations are being made to combat the disaster’, Taiwan has reminded everyone that it was also a part of the earthquake-prone area. Also, the US division sent a notice saying that the citizens present in Taiwan should prepare to face the emergency by registering their names, as informed by this US Department. The American Institute of Taiwan This department works functions as at the de facto American Embassy of America in Taiwan. For this reason, this news organisation drew attention to the tweet issued by this department institute.

The US State and Defense Departments are not at all ready to speak comment on these activities started ongoing in Taiwan. However, the possibility of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait cannot be ruled out, said Lieutenant Colonel Martin Meiners, a spokesperson for the Pentagon. If iTherefore, it is clear that the US is making necessary preparations to evacuate its citizens, then itand this may create mistrust in Taiwan towards the US in Taiwan. Because of this, the United States kept its complete information regarding it hidden to avoid any further commotion the next rigging. This claim was made by the American US news organisation named ‘The Messenger’.

Meanwhile, the United States has had a bad gained a great deal of experience with in liberating evacuating its citizens from during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Sudan. For this reason, even before the start of thea war in Taiwan, the United States wais preparing a plan to release evacuate its citizens from there, theis news organisation has claimed.

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