As said and shown on the map back at #3, and here:
Posted on 08/01/2022 4:58:47 AM PDT by JonPreston
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials, who are worried about China’s response to such a high-profile visit.
The stop – the first for a US House speaker in 25 years – is not currently on Pelosi’s public itinerary and comes at a time when US-China relations are already at a low point.
The Taiwanese official added that she is expected to stay in Taiwan overnight. It is unclear when exactly Pelosi will land in Taipei.
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what an interesting way to prevent the elections.
There you go.
Let the distractions continue have you forgot about inflation and the economy yet.
Never forget the Cuban Missile Crisis was in October 1962 just before the mid-terms.
I agree that China will not mount an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. It is still my estimation that they’re using the Taiwan issue as a feint to cover their mobilization for a fall invasion of Siberia.
That would make the winter work for China because the Russians would be forced to pivot from Ukraine and cross 4500 miles by rail to get to Vladivostok. And much of that railway is within handy striking distance of the Chinese border.
I will also say that I’ve gone from thinking this would happen at some unknown future date to estimating that it will happen by November of this year.
what an interesting way to prevent the elections
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There you go.
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I know, bad me!
That’s what I’ve been wondering. Did we miss something?
Maybe someone should check and see what her husband’s next stock purchase might be. The answer might lie there…
I have been saying on this site, for YEARS, China does not have the ability to invade Taiwan.
90 miles of open water may as well be an entire ocean.
I agree -preferably by launching Pelosi out of the torpedo tube directly onto a secure Taiwanese beach.
But they can certainly ratchet up a sea and air blockade, step by step, and dare the USN to defy it.
If our carrier battle groups are close enough to provide CAS over Taiwan, they have already been in missile range for 500 miles.
Well, if her plane is shot down, at least she has two flotation devices.
Or as Elaine would say on “Seinfeld,”
“FAKE!”
PS...that picture was taken during her last junket, to Italy.
I always thought China would play the long game with a naval blockade
Hi.
Imho China couldn’t sustain a naval block of Formosa even with no help from friendly countries.
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It’s only logical.
1. Go for a surprise “D-Day” invasion, and risk failure and humiliation, or
2. Ratchet up a sea and air blockade, daring the USN to come into hypersonic ship-killer range to break it.
It’s really a no-brainer.
Plus the Chicoms don’t possess the ability to conduct an invasion of Taiwan.
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“Imho China couldn’t sustain a naval block of Formosa even with no help from friendly countries.”
That’s a fantasy. It’s 2022, not 1997, when Newt visited.
This is not “Rocky 14” where the sixty-year-old boxer gets back in shape and whips 24-year-old Mike Tyson. We cannot afford to live according to our Hollywood fantasies. We must grasp new realities.
We have half the military we had then, and China has at least 2 or 3X more.
Most importantly, they have deployed 100s of land-based hypersonic ship-killers that can take out our carriers before they are in aircraft-launching range of Taiwan.
Our carriers are as obsolete as battleships in WW2, when land-based Japanese Betty bombers sank the British battleships fleeing Singapore.
Folks can argue about the above, but do you think it’s a good gamble to try to test the new paradigm? Do you think it’s a gamble that Biden’s handlers will take?
A CVN that is sunk 100% totally destroys the vestigial aura of American military supremacy. That is a very big risk to take.
Declaring a sea and then an air blockade of Taiwan is much safer for the CCP. America, (Biden’s handlers), will then have to then decide to break the declared CCP blockade, and risk the loss of a CBG.
The same team that fled from Afghanistan in utter defeat and humiliation.
It will be a CCP blockade strategy, and Biden’s handlers will not risk breaking it.
That is my prediction.
As said and shown on the map back at #3, and here:
Hi guy. I hope you are doing well.
“Do you think it’s a gamble that Biden’s handlers will take?”
No.
And you know there are many ways to game this scenario. Political, economic, military, demographics etc. If the Chicoms move on Taiwan, many bad things can happen. For many people.
From chip shortages to the TGD disappearing.
I hope cooler heads prevail.
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Why use force? Simple: Global dominance. If they beat the snot out of the USA they will have global respect.
It smells like a setup to me when two of the biggest China shills all of the sudden start acting tough on the CCP. This is kabuki theater until proven otherwise. Hunter Biden has been the bagman to collect millions from China.
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