Posted on 08/09/2022 4:54:47 AM PDT by FarCenter
China’s People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command said in a statement on Monday (August 8) that joint drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan were continuing.
The notice did not specify the precise location of the exercises or when they would end. Whether the six danger zones for the August 4-7 exercises remain in effect is unclear. The PLA never officially announced the end of the war games.
The announcement will likely leave US officialdom as clueless – or at any rate pretend-clueless – as was betrayed by their statements when Taiwanese officials said Chinese aircraft and warships had rehearsed an attack on the island on Saturday.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby complained that the Chinese “can go a long way to taking the tensions down simply by stopping these provocative military exercises and ending the rhetoric.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China’s actions over Taiwan showed a move from prioritizing peaceful resolution toward the use of force.
By comparison, the statement by the Japanese Ministry of Defense that as many as four missiles flew over Taiwan’s capital, which is unprecedented, and that five of nine missiles fired toward its territory landed in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), had the advantage of being factual and accurate.
What neither the White House nor Foggy Bottom appears to have grasped to date is that in the wake of House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “reckless” visit to Taiwan (Tom Friedman’s terminology in his New York Times column) the Xi government took the irreversible decision to “cross the Rubicon” and systematically force the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland.
Too willfully provocative was Pelosi’s action and too puny were the White House and National Security Council’s efforts to rein her in. Together they persuaded Beijing that this Washington or the next administration under Biden’s successor would continue to vitiate and ultimately aim to discard the One China policy.
Who quotes Tom Friedman for anything?
Assuming we don’t get blundered into WWIII this summer, will NATO arbitrarily extend NATO’s charter again (this time to the South China Sea)? I’m sure our NATO “allies” will step up to help us in this other new Asian arms race against the US’s only existential treat.
If the ChiComs think our Deep State’s days are numbered, they’ll take Taiwan before our republic is restored.
Pelosi’s “reckless” visit to Taiwan was to inform Taiwan they need to surrender to China.
The Pelosi visit was pure vanity. It was her last appearance on the world stage.
The left wing propaganda machine is giving her credit she doesn’t deserve and certainly did not earn
In this case he is departing from liberal orthodoxy.
You’re posting your commie propaganda early today
Russian troll ... signed up 1 day before Putin invaded Ukraine ...
like that’s a co-incidence
They can’t afford it. Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Australia, India, know they can’t let that happen and the US is unreliable.
Plus the 3 Gorges Dam which will be blown up will effectively destroy China as a country and kill a billion people.
Want MADD? That ridiculous structure will kill more people in China than 20 nukes.
That dam is an hour's flight time from Taiwan and is heavily guarded by SAMs.
China’s economy is imploding at an accelerated rate. This is distraction. The COVID lockdowns are nothing more than stopping bank runs and keeping people from organizing.
That is why I am getting out of dodge.
Send a couple of hundred explosive devices at it. Sam’s won’t stop a nuke.
China needs to be told point blank that they need to stand down or disappear as a country.
Who builds a structure that can annihilate them? Oh the guys with the long term plans.
Not heavily guarded enough. Nothing is.
SAMs. Effing auto correct.
It’s a sitting target. Nothing can stop its destruction, if it’s decided it needs to be destroyed.
It will kill 1 billion people though. Commies have no conscience when it comes to destroying a billion people. I would not want to live with that decision. A sickening thought of wasted lives because commies want to cling to power.
This is why China needs to be brought to heel. Good thing economics will likely do that before war.
Any pilot flying that mission is on a suicide run.
So it starts. The Balloon will go up at the End of August—WW III and all its horrors. It will not be a long war but it will change the world. This one we may well lose. Say Good bye to Alaska and Hawaii. How many will die? One Billion? Maybe two.
Drone swarms followed by cruise missiles
It would take a day for a drone to fly that far, if it even could....
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