Posted on 10/21/2021 12:41:39 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
In the waning days of the Trump administration, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked quietly behind the scenes to allay the fears of Chinese officials that a defeated President Donald Trump might lash out and attack China. Now, with Trump out of office, it’s not a volatile American president that threatens to destabilize the U.S.-China relationship. It’s China.
Tensions are escalating over Beijing’s provocative actions toward Taiwan this month, sending a record number of military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense zone. The Biden administration is reassessing U.S. policy toward China, and experts fear that a showdown over Taiwan is coming in the years ahead, maybe sooner rather than later.
A rising China could well be the most serious threat the U.S. faces today. The “wag the dog” conflict scenario feared by the Chinese shows concern on both sides about hair-trigger reactions that could spark hostilities between the two nuclear superpowers. These peer competitors have giant economies that dominate a globalizing world. A military clash could disrupt trade, shipping, and supply chains globally—or worse.
The Trump era—with an escalating trade war and Trump’s bellicose rhetoric on the COVID-19 pandemic, harping on what he called “the China virus”—deepened divisions between the two countries and set the relationship on edge. Taiwan could be the flashpoint for miscalculation and conflict. But are Americans ready to see our soldiers and sailors come home in body bags to defend the island from a hostile invasion?
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Shouldn’t this be under breaking news? 🤡
Apparently the author thinks that mean tweets almost started WWIII. Apparently the author is an idiot.
Might be?
Like “Biden might be the most corrupt, stupid, and inept president in the multiverse?”
Here’s how the Threat List stacks up:
1. Biden “Administration.”
2. Completely clueless but self-important liberal women who smugly think they know how to run everyone’s lives.
3. China.
I agree, except I’m not sure China is rising.
America for the most part has always extended our influence with an open hand. Yes we want to make money and yes we want to influence folks and deal harshly with oppressor governments. We may not always be successful but we do extend a hand of peace and benefits to being our friends.
NO other country, and especially China, will do anything of the sort.
No country rushes in after disasters like us. No country fights with you then helps you rebuild.
Anyone who doesn’t see that just doesn’t want to see it.
The only thing China wants from the US is access to its markets.
Click pic to go to Foggy Bottom Twitter entry.
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They have bought the country...big corporations already do there bidding...and the D.C. Kremlin...China told Apple to delete a couple of app from the store
.China’s Apple Store Deletes All Bible and Quran Apps
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/10/18/china-apple-store-deletes-bible-quran-apps/
The China threat and the internal left wing coup are inter-related.
Maybe BACON is expensive because China owns Smithfield Pork and is taking most of it and the pig
Maybe, but animal feed, fertilizer, and fuel have skyrocketed in price too and those are components of the cost.
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