Posted on 04/20/2021 4:22:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
At Beijing, Xi Jinping is doubtlessly assessing the moment. Surely, he must ask himself, “Is the window most open now to conquer Taiwan?” Seizing Taiwan is a critical step in achieving the PRC’s midrange strategic aim of imposing its hegemony in East Asia. China’s longer-term aspiration is to overtake the United States as global leader.
For Xi, that window may be optimal for just 45 months and counting. That’s what remains in Joe Biden’s term. Lately, the PRC has been aggressively menacing Taiwan. Admiral Philip Davidson, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific forces, is persuaded that Xi is accelerating efforts to surpass the United States.
“Taiwan is clearly one of their ambitions before that. And I think the threat is manifest during this decade, in fact, in the next six years,” he told a US Senate armed services committee hearing. [italics added]
Admiral Davidson’s political circumspection may stop him from further speculation. January 20, 2025 may be Xi’s cutoff date.
From Xi’s perspective, is a war more winnable now with the U.S. and its regional allies or in some future time? The opportunity to exploit American vulnerabilities may not occur soon enough again for the PRC, for many reasons.
A key reason is that the United States is saddled with an exceptionally weak president, an old man, frail in mind and body… a man who Xi and his cronies surely disdain.
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Time will tell.
As it was very telling that I had to add captions to explain it to you.
Seem you found another liberal troll. They’ve been coming to FR and driving out people who couldn’t care less to associate with such feeble minded idiots.
Agreed, the longer they wait the weaker we’ll be. The risk is 2022 might be the turning point back toward strength, giving aggressive powers about 1 year to make a decisive move.
We should’a nuked ‘em back in the 1950s.
Uh huh.
Your claim is ludicrous.
Yeah. Some people are just contrarians, say the sky is blue, they’ll disagree.
Waste of time.
And add to all that thousands of “fishing vessels” sent to Taiwan with approx. 100 troops each.
If they make it to the beach for the invasion and Battle of Taiwan, great.
If they are sunk in the ocean, great in two ways:
1. A cheap target caused one irreplaceable torpedo or missile to be expended, using them all up, and
2. “Excess” Chinese males will not return to become a social problem.
China plans to take Taiwan because they have claimed it as a (run away) province for eternity.
It has nothing to do with your ridiculous ‘break out to the world’ plan.
Just like Saddam proclaimed Kuwait as Iraq’s “19th Province”.
Idiot troll, go pester your fellow morons.
Looks like I just did !
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