The map is just to provide a reference of scale.
Posted on 06/01/2022 4:11:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Biden administration’s approach to the issue of Taiwan and China is clouded in confusion.
There is a debate about whether to end the U.S. policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward the island of Taiwan and replace it with strategic clarity. President Biden in recent remarks has stated that the United States will militarily defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack or invasion. Administration officials have had to “walk back” the president’s comments, stating that U.S. policy has not changed from “strategic ambiguity.” The Biden administration’s approach to this issue is, unfortunately, clouded in confusion.
That has not always been the case, however. America’s leading statesmen and strategists have repeatedly noted the strategic importance of Taiwan since the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island in 1949, when the communists took over the mainland.
On June 25, 1950, when North Korean forces invaded South Korea, George Kennan was summoned by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to discuss what America’s response should be to the communist aggression. In his diary, Kennan recalled that when he was asked his views, he said “whatever else happened it would be impossible for us not to take prompt steps to assure that Formosa [Taiwan] did not fall to the communists since this, coming on top of the Korean attack, would be calamitous to our position in the Far East.” Kennan in July drafted a memo urging Acheson to “make sure that the Defense establishment was fully aware of the seriousness of the danger of a successful communist move against Formosa.” Kennan later told Britain’s ambassador to Canada that Formosa “must be regarded as part of the whole Far Eastern picture,” and that its abandonment would mean that “all of the Far East and the Western Pacific.
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China’s first move in their plan to dominate the entire planet under communism.
Taiwan is lost already.
US politicians (from both parties) have been bought by China and Taiwan has been left drifting in the wind.
Oh, they will make big noise when China makes it’s move. But sanctions and strongly worded letters will be irrelevant in the end.
When Taiwan falls, the global economy collapses.
The map is just to provide a reference of scale.
Both Putin and Xi understand that now is the time to attack, while the USA is being ruled by a senile fool.
OTOH, strategic miscalculation could result if an angry and demented Senile Joe, POTUS, orders a full-scale military counter-attack, and China then takes out Guam, etc, leading to WW3.
Again, the CCP would not mind losing millions of “excess males.”
We will protest in the strongest possible terms.
Sorry, but comparing a battle from nearly 80 years ago to today is hilarious.
Comparing an American invasion to a Chinese invasion is equally hilarious.
I read the Stilwell bio about his efforts in China. Chiang kai shek was asked for soldiers to augment the American effort in fighting the Japanese.
Stilwell was appalled at what he got. The Chinese 'soldiers' were old, ill, malnourished, untrained, illiterate, and they had NO uniforms or weapons. Some were naked... literally without clothing or shoes. When Stilwell objected, Chiang kai shek told him, the Chinese do not value the military and soldiering was not an honorable profession. "Would you use your best steel to make nails?"
The CCP will find Taiwan (should Taiwan resist in earnest) is a very hard target. And Taiwan will not be standing alone, most of the Pacific rims countries will side with Taiwan. So how is the CCP going to fight Taiwan, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, UK and USA?
Strategy about who and how much pockets get padding.
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