Posted on 07/06/2020 4:49:34 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The US military "will continue to stand strong" in relation to a conflict between India and China or anywhere else, a top White House official said on Monday, after the US Navy deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea to boost its presence in the region.
"The message is clear. We're not going to stand by and let China or anyone else take the reins in terms of being the most powerful, dominant force, whether it's in that region or over here," White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Fox News.
"And the message is clear. Our military might stands strong and will continue to stand strong, whether it's in relationship to a conflict between India and China or anywhere else," Meadows said in response to a The troops of India and China were locked in an eight-week standoff in several areas in eastern Ladakh including Pangong Tso, Galwan Valley and Gogra Hot Spring.
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Rescind all trade deals and ban travel to China. Ban the importation of all products made in China.
China and the RATs gave us the “virus”.
India gave us millions of doses of HCQ to combat it.
And I’ll just leave that right there.
The South China Sea is not China’s lake!
Read today the PLAgue military are pulling back from the India border. This year has been one PR disaster after another for the Chicoms.
Great news...can you post a link..thanks. Spokeshave
Here’s one. You can Google India,China for more.
For the love of GOD. No.
How about we deal with our own problems and let India,China, and Russia deal with theirs?
Tanks
How about many of our problems are intrinsically intertwined with theirs?
It only takes one to cause aggression and damage.
The big question left is where will the People’s Republic of CHOP stand in such a conflict? :-)
A military conflict with China would all but destroy the sober image that Trump has carefully built with regards to foreign policy. It should be avoided at virtually all costs.
“Rescind all trade deals and ban travel to China. Ban the importation of all products made in China.”
I agree we need to limit our business with China. However, recall what prompted Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. The oil embargo meant that Japan would no longer be able to fuel its fleet. While the US thought that would bring Japan to the negotiating table the US failed to take into account that negotiating was not in Japan’s DNA. The same is true of China. They are driven by motives we would not even consider, like saving face and desperation to keep any change from happening. The recent law they passed regarding Hong Kong is one indication that they are desperate and that they believe there is no longer any point in negotiating with the US, as they are giving up the special trade relationship HK had with the US. Any further negotiation will eventually lead to the collapse of the CCP, because the things Trump is demanding would take away much of the CCP’s money base and power. (Rule of law and intellectual property rights, to name just two biggies.)
The US and China are on a collision course. One bit of leverage we still have is that the US is a huge supplier of food. It is possible that limiting trade will cause food shortages and price jumps that will cause riots and further destabilize the CCP.
There are two ways to bring about what Trump wants. One is to cause slow and inevitable change in China that eventually collapses the CCP without starting a war. The other is to destabilize the CCP into doing something desperate and stupid, like a decapitation strike, which their mouthpiece propaganda organ has threatened they would do numerous times. (Decapitation as in wiping out the US Pacific fleet and, probably Washington DC.) Yes, that sounds stupid, but even the admiral who planned Japan’s decapitation strike thought it was stupid.
Don’t plan on the CCP not doing something because we think it it stupid.
An excellent point.
You have to know your enemy.
I suspect you are dealing in hyperbole.
War is always to be avoided if possible. But at "virtually all costs"?
I doubt you mean the surrender of U.S. sovereignty, or the destruction of our Pacific fleet, or the dictating by the Chinese of the terms of our trade with them, in effect, paying them massive tribute...
This is an unusually strong statement of support for a non-treaty ally. The language, at least in part, appears to be written by President Trump, personally.
That is kind of the whole question at issue isn’t it. I do not think the question has been answered yet.
Trump knows what he is doing. See above.
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