EDITORIAL CARTOON - Taipei Times

2026-07-06

As science, apparently, has proven that a frog in water subjected to increasing heat will, in fact, jump, so then Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States are not condemned to suffer occupation and defeat from the various incrementalist strategies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People's Liberation Army (PLA). CCP/PLA incrementalism in the South China Sea (SCS) has won a great victory, starting in January 1974, when PLA Maritime Militia forces killed 75 South Vietnamese troops to seize 7.75 square kilometers of land in the Paracel Islands (西沙群島) — and no one responded. Fifty-two years later, by moving