so the plan has been brought up by the premier sujan chon which is that taiwan's government is committed to have the island be ready to fight until the last force is not able to fight anymore to defend the island so which means that. one would also have to start thinking about. more long term planning in terms of its military recruitment and also the enlistment of its forces let's just expand this further and talk about the south china sea in general where china has to be with many countries not john has been increasing the spending on his ministry over the past few years has that tilted the balance of this argument in favor of china. so in fact china has altered its strategy in south china sea by focusing more on you mean dots ruling strengthening military ties with individual countries because experts believe china has realized. hostile intimidation campaign towards all of the countries in the region could push these countries into the arms of the u.s. and that would not be aligned well with china's long term military strategy in the region not just talk about the u.s. brief other u.s.