China Is Nearly Done Building a Taiwan Invasion Fleet

Western democracies need to address the exigent threat

The type 052C destroyer Changchun of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy participates in a naval parade in eastern China's Shandong Province on April 23, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/AFP/Getty Images

Commentary

The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I prohibited Germany from creating an air force. So, before plunging the world into the cataclysm of World War II, Adolph Hitler engaged in a massive, clandestine, determined, effort to build Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe, under the guise of building out Germany’s civil airline, Lufthansa.