Hong Kong/Taipei, Taiwan (CNN)Taiwan's Defense Minister, previous general Chiu Kuo-cheng, remained before the island's assembly last week and made a desperate forecast - by 2025, China will actually want to mount a "full-scale" intrusion of Taiwan.
The sensational assertion came after China sent its biggest number of warplanes at this point into the skies above waters southwest of the island. Be that as it may, in spite of the manner of speaking and the tactical saber-shaking, examiners concur China is probably not going to attack Taiwan at any point in the near future, with one master adding the shot at intrusion in the following a year is "near nothing."
Beijing has projected floods of hostility toward the island since the time the previous Nationalist government escaped there toward the finish of the Chinese common conflict in 1949.
In the mid 2000s, for example, specialists said Beijing could move to take Taiwan inside that decade. Then, at that point, in 2013, Taiwan's Defense Ministry assessed the Chinese government would have the capacity to attack by 2020 - neither happened.
Regardless of Beijing's latest aeronautical moves, life goes on as should be expected in Taiwan's capital, Taipei. General society is to a great extent indifferent with regards to the danger of intrusion, and the standard invasions scarcely warrant a notice on the first page of papers.
In any case, that doesn't mean there's not a good excuse for alert.
Beijing is heaping military, monetary and strategic strain on Taiwan to accomplish its longterm objective of "One China" - a solitary joined nation including the island.
What's more, specialists stress that if Chinese Communist Party pioneers accept they have no desire for a tranquil "reunification," they might go to more radical measures to satisfy their aspirations.