The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, François Chihchung WU, also known as Francois Chih-chung Wu or Wu Chih-chung, has been serving in his latest role since August 2024.
Ambassador François Chihchung WU was previously the ambassador to France.
In a recent interview with the Taipei Times, Deputy Minister Chihchung WU warned that China was preparing to invade Taiwan.
“China is preparing to invade Taiwan,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois Wu (吳志中) said in an exclusive interview with British media channel Sky News for a special report titled, “Is Taiwan ready for a Chinese invasion?” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today in a statement.
The 25-minute-long special report by Helen Ann-Smith released yesterday saw Sky News travel to Penghu, Taoyuan and Taipei to discuss the possibility of a Chinese invasion and how Taiwan is preparing for an attack.
The film observed emergency response drills, interviewed baseball fans at the Taipei Dome on their views of US President Donald Trump, visited a university lab teaching students to make semiconductors and spoke to Taiwanese veterans at a care home.
Chihchung WU added this on the Chinese threat.
“The population need to not be naive like in the past… China is preparing to invade Taiwan,” Wu said in the interview.
“Taiwan alone, facing China — we will never be ready… it’s not possible, China is so big, so huge,” he added.
“If one day China take[s] Taiwan, of course it will be very bad for Taiwan… maybe we will be destroyed… but the modern world that we are living in now… will also disappear,” Wu said, due to the global demand for Taiwanese semiconductors.
“Americans have also given us a lot when in 1996 we [had] the missile crisis,” Wu said, adding that, now, the US military is trying to maintain regional stability and democracy to protect not only the semiconductor industry, but US-Taiwan national interests.
“Donald Trump certainly knows that without Taiwanese chips, he cannot make America great again,” Wu added.
Last week, China practiced another round of live-fire amphibious drills across the strait from Taiwan.
According to Intel Slava – In the waters off southern Fujian, an amphibious armored unit from a brigade under the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command conducted a comprehensive tactical exercise and landing operation, focused on command and control, assault wave formation training, obstacle crossing and breaching, infantry coordination, and air defense capabilities.
Video via Intel Slava.
Another round of Chinese live-fire amphibious drills across the strait from Taiwan.
In the littoral waters off southern Fujian, an amphibious armored unit from a brigade under PLA Eastern Theater Command conducted a comprehensive tactical exercise and landing operation,… pic.twitter.com/hUF2CTjDdt
— Intel Slava (@Intel_Slava) July 24, 2025
According to Find Asia Report The Chinese military or People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted another round of live-fire drills near Taiwan.
The PLA drills included live-fire amphibious landing drill near Taiwan off the southern Fujian coast, featuring:
- Full beach landing ops
- Coordinated wave assaults
- Obstacle breaching
- Infantry + armored units
- ️ Air defense & command drills
Does China really want to challenge President Trump in a war for Taiwan?
We shall see.
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