Posted on 03/30/2025 1:12:55 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The United States will ensure "robust, ready and credible deterrence" across the Taiwan Strait, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, calling China "aggressive and coercive".
Hegseth also stopped short of publicly calling on Tokyo to hike military spending, saying in Japan he trusted the close US ally to "make the correct determination of what capabilities are needed".
"America is committed to sustaining robust, ready and credible deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, including across the Taiwan Strait," Hegseth said, using Washington's term for the Asia-Pacific region.
Beijing has stepped up military pressure in recent years around Taiwan, including near-daily air incursions, and has not ruled out using force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
US President Donald Trump's "America First" approach could mean weakening the US commitment for security in the region, analysts have warned.
But Hegseth said the previous US administration had "created this vacuum, a perception that America was not strong, and wasn't prepared to deter conflicts from starting".
"Our job now at this moment, here with our allies, is to say: We are re-establishing deterrence. Peace through strength, with America in the lead, is back," the Pentagon chief told reporters.
He said Washington would "build an alliance so robust that both the reality and the perception of deterrence is real and ongoing, so that the Communist Chinese don't take the aggressive actions that some have contemplated they will".
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Hegseth, 44, a former infantryman and Fox News personality, hailed the "extraordinary strength of America's alliance with Japan".
"President Trump has also made it very clear, and we reiterate, we are going to put America first. But America first does not mean America alone," he said.
"America and Japan stand firmly together in the face of aggressive and coercive actions by the Communist Chinese."
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The CCP is going to evolve into a huge problem if the deep state successfully starts a war in which all European countries are involved.
That will be when the CCP starts a war in the Pacific.
Probably correct.
Chicoms missed their window of opportunity during President Vegetable’s administration.
Hegseth: US Will Ensure ‘Deterrence’ Across Taiwan Strait
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Thank God !
Bravo
Fortunately
I’m betting there are one or two attack subs patrolling the straits along with a boomer in deep waters.
Actually, the best case for China would be that Russia be free to contain Japan and draw away US forces while China executes their Taiwan strategy, and recent bilateral activity/exercises in the area seems to suggest just such a strategy. Russia being in a full scale war in the west would preclude such a plan.
They were helping the lawfare efforts vs. Trump and hoped for Kamala Coconut. Taiwan would probably already be blockaded if that retard had "won."
It will be interesting to see how China intends to ferry a few hundred thousand troops one hundred miles across the Taiwan Strait, with today’s electronic warfare.
Why you push CCP United Front narrative?
THIS I where our attention should be, bot Europe.
They plan to put them in an abattoir assembly line.
Fish in a barrel plan.
and a Japanese General on-board to press the button if ccp preps to attack Nihon, imho. I also can guess some deadly surprises from very smart engineers waiting for the day of the CCP Regretable Decision.
(hopefully never comes)
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