Posted on 12/04/2020 9:40:33 AM PST by blam
CNN anchor and the network’s chief national security corresponding issued a surprising and alarming statement on Thursday. Jim Sciutto wrote on Twitter:
As Chinese military activity around Taiwan continues to ramp up, a senior administration official tells me, “We are watching very closely and would be ready for anything including a grave miscalculation by the PRC. We’re definitely watching them.”
Illustrative file image of Chinese nuclear submarine, via Reuters/VOA
He added at a moment Trump continues to chip away at Beijing through a series of unprecedented ‘blacklisting’ measures, as well as new visa restrictions against Communist Party members and their families (which includes tens of millions of Chinese citizens total) that American defense officials think geopolitical flashpoints involving Chinese ‘aggression’ are about to boil over.
“Sooner or later they’re willing to push things to a boiling point over Taiwan as they did in Hong Kong and on border with India,” the official is cited further as saying to CNN’s Sciutto. “It’s coming.”
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is reportedly proceeding with plans to establish (or in a sense resurrect) a new 1st Fleet for the US Navy to better monitor the expansive Indian Ocean region and ultimately deter China.
Watch this space:
As Chinese military activity around Taiwan continues to ramp up, a senior administration official tells me, “We are watching very closely and would be ready for anything including a grave miscalculation by the PRC. We’re definitely watching them.” 1/
Currently the Navy’s 7th Fleet is responsible for covering a massive stretch of ocean from where it is based in Yokosuka, Japan. This includes the maritime expanse from waters corresponding to where the India-Pakistan border is, all the way to Hawaii.
Last month the Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite said the DoD is working on it under his direction.
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Pei-Ping.
Just waiting for Biden.
January 20, at noon EST......................
Taiwan needs to declare independence and stop messing around with Beijing.
China CCP planning a distraction from the Trump camp gaining momentum exposing massive fraud?
Me cynical self says absolutely yes.
If Biden is sworn in, I wouldn’t want to be a citizen of Taiwan or Australia. China has designs on turning both of them into vassal states.
“We are watching very closely and would be ready for anything including a grave miscalculation by the PRC.”
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Not so sure it would really be a miscalculation. I hope China doesn’t provoke anything but doing it while we are preoccupied with our own political struggles is probably to their advantage at this time. They were clearly emboldened by imposing their control over Hong Kong and their territorial expansionism in the South China Sea. Momentum seems to be on their side.
Our President knows exactly what he is doing. They must be dealt with . They are the worst threat and if we give up and let Biden assume the White House, we all will be doomed.
BFD! They’ve already released a bio weapon upon the entire world that no one knows how to stop! The boiling pot has overflowed as far as I know (being I work for HHS) since March 13!!!
If Taiwan gets attacked by China, expect North Korea to attack South Korea and for Russia to sweep into Poland and Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia. Japan will sustain massive air and missile attacks from China, North Korea and Russia.
We should drag out our biggest cold-war era H-bomb and turn that island into a hole in the sea floor.
Hi.
How secure is the 3G dam?
Be a shame if something happened to it.
Then again, Wuhan is downstream...
Sorry.
5.56mm
ChiCom bump for later....
“If Biden is sworn in, I wouldn’t want to be a citizen of Taiwan or Australia. China has designs on turning both of them into vassal states”
They don’t plan on stopping with just those.
Read this most informative speech of this Chinese General:
https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/
China dropping covid “bombs” on US.
How come demonrats know so much about when they are going to hit?
How come China is essentially free of covid now?
Insurrection aided by the SWAMP!
DEEP STATE SKULDUGGERY!
In case you didn’t know it, we are already AT WAR.
And TRUMP WON.
That chink sub was not only ‘nuke-powered’, but a BOOMER!!
Taiwan did declare its independence, which resulted in the Quemoy incident.
It was known how to stop the “pandemic” pretty much from the start. Take a lot of vitamins D and C and regular zinc and go early to HCQ.
It was our side of the conspiracy that clamped down on all of that and actually goosed it to a pandemic with big bounties on ventilator use, shipping elderly with it back to their nursing homes, etc.
It would be an excellent time to attack Taiwan now, because it appears that the election results will be in dispute for some time. Their gambit to affect the election has not totally worked, so why not go ahead and throw things in further disarray? I pray that they do not, but they are the Chinese with a “5 year plan”.
If that happens we better have some Rad Block on hand.
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