In the event that China invades, Taiwan’s cultural treasures are headed for secure warehouses, including one deep inside a mountain
Inspired by Ukraine’s success at safeguarding cultural artifacts from Russia’s military assault, Taiwanese museum directors are drawing up plans to hide their most valuable items if war with China is imminent., Taiwan’s cultural treasures are headed for secure warehouses – including at least one deep inside a mountain.That’s an operational secret.
_Tripitaka in Tibetan_ . If China invades, Taiwan’s cultural treasures are headed for secure warehouses – including at least one deep inside a mountain. Where exactly? Wu Mi-cha, director of Taiwan’s prestigious National Palace Museum won’t say.Taiwan’s National Palace Museum holds one of the biggest collections of Chinese art and antiquities in the world, much of it brought over by retreating Nationalist forces who lost the Chinese civil war to the Communists in 1949.
The museum, built like a Chinese palace in northern Taipei with curved yellow and green tiled roofs, held an internal evacuation planning exercise in July featuring a scenario where air strikes were hitting Taiwan and electric power had been cut. Mr. Wu said Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence and National Security Bureau are advising the curators what an attack would look like and how to navigate the chaos.
Beijing’s authoritarian rulers consider Taiwan a breakaway province even though the Chinese Communist Party, which seized power on the mainland more than 70 years ago, has never governed the island. It’s where Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek retreated after losing the civil war to the Communists. Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. U.S. experts predict that by 2027, China will be capable of invading Taiwan.
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