Yeah but our enemies are thoroughly enjoying it
Posted on 05/23/2022 2:49:01 AM PDT by markomalley
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, in a series of critical comments about China he made in Tokyo that an aide said represented no change in U.S. policy on the self-ruled island.
Biden’s comment, made during his first visit to Japan since taking office, and as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida looked on, appeared to be a departure from existing U.S. policy of so-called strategic ambiguity on Taiwan.
China considers the democratic island its territory, part of “one China”, and says it is the most sensitive and important issue in its ties with the United States.
When a reporter asked Biden during a joint news conference with the Japanese leader if the United States would defend Taiwan if it were attacked, the president answered: “Yes.”
“That’s the commitment we made,” he said.
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Biden works for Satan.
It is not his job to avoid war, mahem, lies, or chaos, and there is NOTHING he does that I can or will thank God for.
There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the Lord Jesus Christ, and Biden does not serve Him, nor is Biden operating in His Holy Spirit.
Yeah but our enemies are thoroughly enjoying it
That’s very possible. The only point of the above map and Okinawa comparison is to point out what would be possible IF fierce resistance was given.
In one year or less, Taiwan could have mass-produced state of the art ATGMs, MANPADs, sniper rifles, drones, advanced mine systems, prepared every bridge and tunnel with demo (as in Switzerland) etc etc.
Inert trainers for the above can also be mass-produced and everybody on the island would be familiar with them, along with video training.
IF the will is there, the island can be turned into a fortress.
Personally, I think Taiwan’s billionaires will cut a deal with the CCP and sell out the people.
We see what the digitalization of weapons is doing to how war is being waged in Ukraine but no technology has forced changes on our defense policy and, by extension, upon our Constitution than nuclear tipped ICBMs and now hypersonic missiles. In order to preserve any credible deterrence our potential enemies must believe or at least fear that the president can retaliate in seconds to any nuclear attack. Hence, the president is now virtually empowered to destroy the world so the nuclear football is always at his elbow.
By extension then, we have adopted legislation that permits the president to take us to conventional war and submit the issue to Congress in, I believe, 30 days. In the age of cyber warfare, satellites, and hypersonic missiles, a month is an eternity. So the issue may well be far out of the hands of Congress in minutes but certainly the potential exists for Congress to lose all options for control in a month. So if Congress is to have constitutional relevance it must act in advanced to conventional situations such as posed by Taiwan and make clear in advance what our national posture should be in the event of incursion, attack, or invasion. The time to debate the issue is now.
The first matter to be determined in such a debate is what is America's national interest in the integrity and sovereignty of Taiwan? American foreign policy has already compromised the sovereignty of Taiwan with the acknowledgment of the one nation theory.
My view is that our national interest should be considered according to a timeline. The immediate and intermediate future tells me that America has vital interest in the independence of Taiwan so long as Taiwan is producing computer chips without which we simply cannot function economically, and without which we certainly cannot defend ourselves. These chips, although not the top and most sophisticated in the world which are made mostly in the USA, these are the second-tier manufactured in bulk that are superior to China's.
Longer-term, an intelligent national policy would be to transplant capacity to make first-class chips on a wholesale basis back to the homeland but that would be a further step toward a mercantilist policy that is long overdue but which simply is politically impossible so long as China owns not just American congressional politics but virtually every American institution. Considered from the Chinese point of view, the wisdom of Sun Tzu councils patience, the wise course is simply to wait and Taiwan will fall into Chinese hands like ripe fruit without incurring the sanctions the world is imposing on Russia for Ukraine while America continues to decline and fall into Chinese thrall.
So the issue here becomes can the country come to a conclusion concerning the true nature of the threat from China and to a clear understanding of how that plays out in Taiwan. That requires a leader and that means it is very unlikely to occur until at least after January 2023, if then.
Joe: Shut up…please!!!
Crap, they are screwed. He meant China
“The act requires the United States to have a policy “to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character”, and “to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan.””
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act#Military_provisions
Another paper tiger. Joe is a pathetic loser. Sure, he will send American troops to do his bidding without any regard for critical analysis of the situation. He has no military knowledge or training. He should be impeached.
Called it. (CNN, Fox, respectively)
I know a couple of ex-military fellows from Taiwan. They seemed more than willing to fight to the death for their country. All their wargames involved a Chinese invasion.
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A lot of truth in that map. The battle to defend Taiwan cannot go beyond an economic battle.
Biden couldn’t use “force” to drop a turd in the toilet. How will he be able to defend Taiwan? I’m sure his Chinese puppet masters are trembling with fear from the vaunted USA tranny brigade.
When I was in Taiwan in the mid 70’s every major intersection and key roads were shut down at midnight and machine gun nest were set up. Don’t know how it is now but the island was very serious about protecting it against an invasion.
Biden will soon tell Xi that he will have more flexibility after his re-election....
Bump
I agree.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I watched The Sound of Music so I know all about what happened in Austria in 1938.
Obviously, there are SOME people living on Taiwan who would object to, or even resist, reunification. That's not the point.
The point is, what evidence of willingness and ability of the whole people of Taiwan to fight a bloody, ultimately failing, war with China would justify mussing one hair on the head of a single American sailor or marine?
Let us not make our anger at the senile man and his handlers who stole the 2020 election blind us from defending America and her interests. Those are OUR interests.
The Chinese have no guilt about imperialism. They are arming numerous islands and atolls far from their shores in the South China Sea, which sits by some of the wolrds most important shipping lanes. America has always been a mercantile nation and a strong defender of the right to sail the seas and trade with everyone. Meanwhile, China is buying up Africa and Latin America by the wholesale. They will ascend us soon as the nation with the highest GDP in the world.
They continue to oppress and torment not only their own people with a totalitarian government, but many other not Han people’s who they control. Our own struggle is against similar elements in our own government, but as long as China gets away with it, it will continue to embolden our domestic enemies.
The struggle with the Communist Chinese is a valid one for us to take. No, we’re not the world’s policemen, but who else could oppose their plans?
We wish for a peaceful China that has a citizen elected government like our own. That is actually what most Han Chinese want, too.
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