Stating that "The situation in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea is getting increasingly tense" and citing overseas media outlets that US military planes have flown to the South China Sea 67 times in a month; that the PLA started military exercises in the Yellow Sea on August 22, following its just-concluded military drills in the Taiwan Straits and will also conduct military exercises in the South China Sea and the Bohai Sea on August 24, the Global Times (August 23) said, "There have been increasing discussions on the risk of military conflicts". It said, "The situation in the Taiwan Straits is the most delicate." Urging the US and Taiwan to take steps to ease tension, the Global Times warned: "The current danger is that DPP authorities and the US keep ratcheting up their actions and eroding the mainland's bottom line with "salami-slicing" tactics. The Taiwan authorities continually step on the bottom line under the banner of democracy, and the US constantly violates the "one-China" principle it has acknowledged in a bid to pressurize China. The two are dancing to the same tune to challenge the Chinese mainland. Should a hot war break out, the DPP authorities will be bound to step down or even collapse. If the war turns into a comprehensive one, the DPP leaders who have committed heinous crimes will either be wiped out in the war or sent to the mainland and brought to justice. Taiwan's "defense authorities" boast their abilities and resolution in a war, which is self-deceiving. If Taiwan authorities indulge in such fantasies and push the situation into a military showdown, they will only confront these self-made tragedies in the future".
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