China has already revealed plans to ‘unify Taiwan by force’ There is no need to presume China will take Taiwan by military force when its supreme leader Xi Jinping has already said he has “plans to unify Taiwan with the mainland by force,” says ASPI’s Michael Shoebridge. Liberal Senator Jim Molan said in The Australian on Monday that war is “not just possible in our region, but likely” and will involve China and Taiwan. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Director of Defence and Strategy, Michael Shoebridge, told Sky News Australia has overlooked the “nasty but empirically true facts” about the way the communist government is “growing their military power and using their military power”. “I don’t think we have to presume china has plans to take Taiwan by military force, their leader Xi Jinping has said that he has plans to unify Taiwan with the mainland by force,” he said. “He’s quite clearly - with his actions on Hong Kong, ending the one country two systems model for Hong Kong - ruled out that same model as something anyone in Taiwan can believe.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ2saYG6frs