Posted on 04/27/2024 9:04:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of U.S. naval operations, gave an interview in 2022, he made a point of saying he believed China could invade Taiwan in 2022 or 2023. As of the last week of April 2024, China has not invaded Taiwan. Does this mean that Taiwan and the international community can breathe a collective sigh of relief? Maybe. A compelling case can be made that if China does intend to take Taiwan, then the period between now and January 2025 is as favorable a time as it is likely to have over the near term.
There is an array of measures China could employ in a runup to an invasion of Taiwan. These include disrupting the U.S. military’s ability to intervene by destroying command and control satellites as well as severing key undersea fiber optics cables. Wouldn’t these actions demand a vigorous U.S. response? This is exactly what China must avoid if it’s to take Taiwan. Experts have been wargaming various scenarios for years and the consensus seems to be that if the U.S. intervenes quickly it will thwart China’s invasion, but there would be heavy casualties on both sides.
Xi Jing Ping and his regime must be weighing the probabilities of a Biden versus a Trump victory in November because the outcome would be a significant variable in their calculus.
China's best opportunity to invade Taiwan in the short term without meaningful U.S. intervention seems to be between now and January 2025 might be a valid conclusion. However, China likes to play the long game so its timetable might not match up at all with conventional wisdom. China's true intentions remain opaque.
Perhaps Xi has decided that an invasion of Taiwan is too risky -- at least in the short term.
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China has a US foothold already. They already have inserted a couple of divisions worth of military aged males through our southern non-border. Raising some hell here would distract us from Taiwan.
“ The Trump-Biden presidencies have been a disaster just on inflation alone”
You’re trolling to change the subject on a post about a different topic.
We called that disrupting and people like you disrupters back in the old days.
Keep in mind that The Chinese military is made up of the sole child of a family. Not only that, being in the military is not a “good” job so it is made up of some of the weakest members who have no combat experience.
Why bother? Just hack an election in Taiwan and vote your people in.
Taiwan uses paper ballots, only in person day of election voting, ballots are counted in full view of everyone.
Amazingly, that what we *used* to do.
Which one will this be? 3 or 4? I've lost track. The man lives on debt. Why do you think he couldn't raise his bond?
Man, do you got The Trump Hatez!
I can imagine you cr@pping yourself when Trump got elected against the odds in 2016.
You stewed in your own foaming TrumpHate bile for EIGHT MONTHS before you dared to show your ignorant face around here again.
It is to laugh.
You gonna vote for yourself this November, like that other Trump-hating tool did in 2016 and 2020?
Wrong.
I held my nose voted for him in 2016. After I dropped the ballot off, I threw up. Our country has a knack for finding the 2 worst possible people and then running them for president.
Don’t you have some drugs to go take?
Wrong.
Were you pregnant by Chuck Schumer?
Poison Pill: "How should I know? You think I got eyes in the back of my head?
Nope. Haven't seen your dad.
Off topic, but I'd like to look up some of my really old posts, from back in the early 2000s. Does anyone know a shortcut to get back there?
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