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China 'Ready for War' With The US
China 'Ready for War' With The US
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Do you think that defending Ukraine is the existential battle for freedom in our lifetime?
I don't. Not that I want Vlad the Mad Putin to take over Ukraine, but the US faces much bigger problems than getting involved in a territorial dispute in a country with which we have almost no shared interests.
For over twenty years, presidents have talked about the "pivot to Asia" in US foreign policy, and for over 20 years that pivot never happened.
The reason for all that talk is simple: most of the action in the world economy touches Asia in some way, yet the region is not especially stable politically and militarily. China is an expansionist power, Russia is a player in the Pacific as well as Europe, and territorial disputes are more common there and much more important than in Europe.
China and the Philippines are in a lukewarm war over territorial disputes, and China's ambitions to retake Taiwan are coming to a head.
And now China declares that it is ready for war with the United States.
We all saw this coming. As the US economy became ever more intertwined with China, the Chinese ambition and capability to exercise economic and military power has grown even faster.
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I don't expect hostilities to break out tomorrow, although the trade war is heating up already. But China has been expanding its military at an alarming rate, with the world's largest (but not most powerful) Navy, an anti-access area-denial umbrella of ballistic missiles, an increasingly capable air force, and bellicose policies against its neighbors.
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War games have been worrying our military leaders, showing devastating losses for Americans in any conflict should it occur. As the US has had trouble remaking our military from one focused on small conflicts against ragtag terrorists to one ready to take on near-peer adversaries, China has been laser focused on building capabilities to take advantage of our long supply lines and reliance on carriers and fixed air bases to project power in the region.
This, more than even the humanitarian and fiscal incentives to end the Ukraine war, justifies Trump's hardball tactics in Europe. Our main adversary is China, and Xi Jinping is laying down the gauntlet.
Xi, it is said, wants to get Taiwan back before he exits the political scene. I can't see into his head to know that this is true, but if so war of some kind is inevitable.
And Xi is signaling he is ready.
Commentary:
The Chinese have been building their military for decades. Yet, like the North Koreans and Russians they continue to fight the last war.
Their human mass attacks are only fodder for cannon and drones.
In relation to China's readiness to fight. Everything looks great until the first shots are fired then reality kicks in... Every military leadership in history says the same thing until the first shots are fired and boots hit the ground. Russia found that out very quickly...
Donald Rumsfeld said, "You go to war with the army you've got, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.".
Sure they got lots of planes, ships and other machines of war. But how many seasoned fighter pilots and naval skippers do they have? How many pilots can do carrier landings and takeoffs? How well drilled are their crews?
Taiwan, however, has been preparing for attempted invasions for a long time, and watching with interest the goings on in Ukraine.
Then again China is looking at Manchuria and looking to take land from India.
Before Democrats turned the Russo-Ukraine war. into an endless war and their personal laundering piggy bank, back when it was still being fought out of pure desperation, the Ukrainians did some brilliant things with drones, land mines and defensive urban warfare. The text books have all been changed. And Taiwan has been taking notes.
I think it's important for all of us to remember how we got to this place. We got here in large measure because politicians and globalists facilitated the move of our industrial base overseas, and selling strategic technology to China while enriching themselves.
That is what Bill Clinton did by selling out the United States of America to the Chinese Communists.
While all in America were concerned about Bubba was getting his knob polished by an aide . The hell with their families who were going to be killed by the Communists so that he could make a dollar. China Gate was real and catastrophic to America.
Read more:
Red Face Over China - June 1, 1998
www.cnn.com
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Congress Investigating Sales of Satellite Technology to China (Published 1998)
Several Congressional committees investigate whether Clinton Administration's policy of exporting space satellite technology to China has helped China and other countries to develop and use nuclear missiles; inquiries were sparked by article in The New York Times disclosing Pentagon finding that...
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How China acquires ‘the crown jewels’ of U.S. technology
The U.S. fails to adequately police foreign deals for next-generation software that powers the military and American economic strength.
www.politico.com
