Posted on 07/29/2022 11:12:05 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
X: Congressional Republicans are preparing to introduce legislation creating a "lend-lease" military aid program for Taiwan to ward off increased belligerence from Communist China.
The bill, which is the brainchild of House GOP Rep. Michelle Steel and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, is modeled after an early 1940s program that allowed the U.S. government to bolster European Allies without having to directly enter World War II itself.
"The Chinese Communist Party continues to intimidate and pressure our ally and the United States should always be on the side of freedom and democracy," said Steel, R-Calif.
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Next bill, waive rental payments? Thank you US Taxpayer!
Unless the US further draws down it own stocks, production is years off.
And let the rest of the world, who rely on the semiconductors made in Taiwan, that that is their plan.
There are decades of IP and technology and highly specialized manufacturing equipment, that if destroyed, would crash the world economy for many years to come.
Chips for Weapons!
You bet that’s what Trump would do.
They hope for something similar to Hong Kong where they can have some modicum of local control, but we see what is happening in Hong Kong as they become fully absorbed into the Mainland.
The KMT has been in control of Taiwan for much of its history. Although they are not in power now, it is not unforeseeable that they will regain power at some time. If they have access to all of our technology, and then allow themselves to be absorbed into Mainland China, that will be yet another technological loss for the US.
I thought we gave them all to Ukraine. Sorry Taiwan.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
What's the objective here? More more money flowing into the defense industry? A distraction from the miserable Biden economy that might save a few Democrat seats in Congress despite how much those in Taiwan would suffer?
Defending Taiwan, no matter the cost, will be cheaper than allowing China to invade Taiwan and seize (or destroy) TSMC.
Better weapons to Taiwan were approved by Congress in 2019. So far the U.S./DOD/Biden has not delivered them.
“What’s the objective here?”
I think their “objective” here is exactly the same as their objective is in instigating the war in Ukraine.
The United States has been in decline for quite a while. At the same time our chief competitors/adversaries have been growing much stronger. Our ruling Deep State sees this as a threat to our 30 year hegemony. They are desperate to push back the ascendant super powers. “Weaken, destabilize, create regime change.”
Unfortunately, they are incompetent and delusional and some of the worst leaders this country has ever seen. They do not recognize the current reality of our situation or the actual situation of our competitors/adversaries. So they make one mistake, one bad decision after another.
The result: The World is making a shift in power. Unipolar power is out; multipolar power is in.
Biden’s foreign policy with major adversaries is to talk strong but hold a weak stick - actually a weak will, in public, while we have yet to hear his actual phone calls with either Putin or Xi. What did he say to Putin that gave Putin a green light in Ukriane? What compromises has he made with Xi?
Putin and Xi operate on the basis of “tensions are lessened if our belicose statements are taken as the threats they are meat to be”. Biden operates on the basis of playing nice, planning ahead not at all, putting himself and the U.S. in postions of reactiing instead of acting - the adversary starts with the upper hand and Joe has to try to play catch up.
The KMT originally ran Taiwan in a fascist manner, so they might be okay rejoining Xi's fascist regime.
“lend-lease” military aid program for Taiwan
Biden got the Russians and Ukraine fighting..
The dems are ‘so smart’..next pelosi going to Taiwan and China on the move.. so biden sends more fighting equipment.. and has already
sent millions.. billions. Who’s counting!
Does he know wars are not popular!!
You’d think biden has his behind hanging somewhere between the USSR and Ukraine
But there will be no investigating him.
Mercy no...
I can’t believe the US military was stupid enough to commit the scarce resources we had to that sideshow in Ukraine. Aren’t both the 82nd and 101st mobilized a and in Poland? When Xi makes his move what options do the idiots and traitors in DC have? I can’t see Taiwan stopping China. It will take the USN, no proxies. That would start WWIII.
Lots of people seem to regard Taiwan as nearly militarily defense defenseless. That’s not so in terms of both the arms that Taiwan possesses and his geographic position. The Straits of Taiwan are about 80 miles wide at their narrowest point. The English Channel is only about 20 miles wide at its narrowest point and can be crossed by a good swimmer. Nevertheless, those vital 20 miles have saved England from three separate invasions by continental tyrants. Those tyrants were Philip II of Spain, Napoleon, and Hitler. Crossing those 20 miles with a modern vessel takes less than an hour. The 80 miles across the Straits of Taiwan would take a number of hours and be under heavy fire all the time. One or two US nuclear submarines could just about sink anything that the Chinese sent across the Straits.
Then there is the fact that the Taiwanese have been expecting an invasion ever since Chang Kai-shek retreated to the island and have been digging a giant rats warren of defensive tunnels. In much less time the Japanese did the same thing on Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and other islands, plus digging a nightmare monster of tunnels on the home islands. One of the big reasons we dropped two atom bombs on Japan was to avoid about 500,000 casualties that we’d incur if we tried to invade the islands and go up against that tunnel system. In other words, Taiwan is no pushover and that’s a good reason right there to defend it. The chip manufacturing, of course, makes it a vital asset to the United States and one that must remain in friendly hands. That’s profoundly different than with Ukraine, where we’re engaged in a basically a charitable activity.
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