US Claims China Wants to Seize Taiwan “on A Much Faster Timeline”

Beijing has decided to capture Taiwan much faster than previously thought and may use force to do so, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed.

“Instead of sticking with the status quo that was established in a positive way, [Beijing has made] a fundamental decision that the status quo is no longer acceptable, and Beijing is determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline,” Blinken said at Stanford University in California on Monday, RT reported.

“If peaceful means didn’t work then would employ coercive means, and possibly if coercive means don’t work then maybe forceful means to achieve its objective. That is what is profoundly disrupting the status quo and creating tremendous tensions,” he added.

Blinken warned that an attack on Taiwan, a major semiconductor producer, would hurt the global economy.