Retired PLA Lieutenant General Wang Hongguang, who is a former Deputy Commander of the Nanjng Miliatary Region, wrote a strongly worded article in the official Global Times on April 10, 2015, in a vitriolic response to a Taiwan-based journalist's assessment of three ways Taiwan could stave off a potential Chinese invasion. The Taiwan-based journalist J Michael Cole'S article was titled 'Master Plan to Defeat China in a War'.