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<h3> Urgent Warning Report <br>
U.S. President Trump may &#8220;not interfere&#8221; but rather give his &#8220;approval</h3>
<p> The Taiwan contingency is not a matter of &#8220;will it happen or not? It has already begun.</p>
<p> Kenji Minemura, a leading analyst of international affairs and senior fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies and director of the China Research Center, sounded this alarm.</p>
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<p> For Chinese President Xi Jinping (72), the annexation of Taiwan is a long-held dream, and at the Communist Party congress held once every five years, he declared both at home and abroad that &#8220;the complete reunification of the motherland must be realized&#8221; (October 2010). Last December, the Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army conducted military exercises in the vicinity of Taiwan. Mr. Minemura continues below.</p>
<p> It is highly unlikely that China will annex Taiwan in a large-scale landing operation that would be resented by the international community. A &#8220;new type of unification war&#8221; in the &#8220;gray zone&#8221; that does not lead to military conflict would be used to annex Taiwan in stages, and the annexation of Taiwan would be accomplished intact.</p>
<p> The figure below was prepared from internal Chinese documents and other sources to illustrate these steps. The chart shows that Mr. Xi is steadily advancing toward &#8220;reunification of the country. Accelerating Xi&#8217;s &#8220;new type of unification war&#8221; will be the words and actions of U.S. President Trump since the beginning of this year, which have surprised the world.</p>
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<p> On January 3, U.S. forces attacked military installations and other facilities in Venezuela, South America, and detained President Maduro and his wife. On the following day, January 4, President Trump expressed his desire to take possession of Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory. President Trump&#8217;s aim is to &#8220;secure interests in the Western Hemisphere.</p>
<p> For Mr. Trump, the Americas and Greenland are the sphere of influence of the United States. Venezuela, his &#8220;garden,&#8221; is an oil-rich country, but 85% of its oil is exported to China. For Trump, it is absolutely essential to get back the &#8220;stolen oil&#8221;.</p>
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<h3>China&#8217;s sphere of influence and the extent of the &#8220;Eastern Hemisphere&#8221; recognized by President Trump.</h3>
<p> This will be a deal with China. In exchange for U.S. oil from Venezuela, he will recognize the &#8220;Eastern Hemisphere,&#8221; including Taiwan and Japan, as China&#8217;s sphere of influence and &#8220;will not interfere.</p>
<p> This is why Trump stresses his rights regarding his own sphere of influence, the &#8220;Western Hemisphere. This deal may be implemented at the U.S.-China summit scheduled for this April. In other words, the U.S. may &#8220;endorse&#8221; China&#8217;s annexation of Taiwan.</p>
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<p> There is also a possibility that Chinese special forces will carry out a &#8220;beheading operation&#8221; to detain Taiwanese President Lai Ching-tok, as the US did with the Venezuelan president. In fact, the existence of a full-scale building in the Inner Mongolian desert that resembles the Taiwanese presidential palace has been confirmed. Training to raid there has been repeated. These exercises must have been conducted with &#8220;Operation Beheading&#8221; in mind.</p>
<p> Other than &#8220;Operation Beheading,&#8221; what else could happen to accomplish the annexation of Taiwan? I would like you to look back at the chart below. In fact, military exercises and some degree of pressure to cross Taiwan are already in place.</p>
<p> The most effective method for China is a maritime blockade by &#8220;on-site inspection&#8221; of surveillance ships and mines. Taiwan has only an 11-day reserve of liquefied natural gas, which is responsible for 30% of electricity generation in Taiwan, and its food self-sufficiency rate is around 30%. A sea blockade will make life difficult for the Taiwanese people.</p>
<p> Cyber attacks will also be in full swing. Electromagnetic waves will cause communication problems with smartphones and computers. Disinformation such as &#8220;President Lai has abandoned the people and fled the country&#8221; will be spread. Mr. Xi&#8217;s goal is to reunify the country intact. Without destroying society and property, he wants to discourage the people of Taiwan from fighting and to get them to the negotiating table in China&#8217;s favor.</p>
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<p> Japan is no stranger to this. If the &#8220;Eastern Hemisphere,&#8221; as envisioned by the leaders of the U.S. and China, is left to China, U.S. support will not be forthcoming.</p>
<p> Without the support of the U.S. military, it would be difficult for Taiwan to mount a counteroffensive against China on its own. In such a case, to what extent would Japan&#8217;s ally, the Self-Defense Forces, get involved? If it were to fall in line with the U.S. and leave Taiwan for dead, it would be heavily criticized by the international community. On the other hand, if the Self-Defense Forces were to be deployed, they would suffer tremendous damage. &#8230;&#8230; Japan is faced with an extremely serious dilemma.</p>
<p> The economic damage would also be great. Ninety percent of Japan&#8217;s maritime distribution goes through the Bashi Strait. A maritime blockade of Taiwan would cause immeasurable damage to Japan.</p>
<p> Taiwan and Japan are being swept up in the machinations of the two major powers, the U.S. and China. The seriousness of the contingency is becoming more serious by the day.</p>
<p> From the February 20/27, 2026 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY</p>
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 Kenji Minemura (Senior Fellow, Canon Institute for Global Studies)

 Kenji Minemura, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Research Center at the Canon Institute for Global Studies, says that a Taiwan contingency has already begun. What is the basis for this? We present details of the plan for reunification of the motherland uncovered in internal Chinese documents.

The Taiwan contingency has already begun.&#8221; &#8220;President Xi Jinping&#8217;s Long-Awaited Plan for the Reunification of the Motherland&#8221; Uncovered in Internal Chinese Documents

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