Beijing’s Recent Cross-Strait Integration Policy Is ‘Psychological Warfare’ on Taiwan: Experts

China’s communist regime aiming to infiltrate, subjugate, and take over Taiwan without having to fire a shot, experts say.
Beijing’s Recent Cross-Strait Integration Policy Is ‘Psychological Warfare’ on Taiwan: Experts
Tourists look on as a Chinese military helicopter flies past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest points to Taiwan, in Fujian Province, on Aug. 4, 2022. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
Sophia Lam
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In a recently released document, China’s communist regime touted supposed economic gains for Taiwanese people who would move across the Taiwan Strait to China—in an attempt to attract Taiwanese residents to live and do business in China’s southeastern coastal province of Fujian.

It has been a practice of the communist regime to attempt to subjugate Taiwan by simultaneously emphasizing both its military presence in the area and purported economic benefits a closer relationship would bring to the island.