That is no longer the case and our planning needs to assume it starts in 1-5 years. We need to know who will fight with us, and WE need to prepare materially.
Taiwan is just a proxy for all of Oceanic Asia.
China is basically trying to do what Imperial Japan did, bring about the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”
report + reportedly + people familiar with = garbage ... QED ...
IOW’s, we need some Ukraine style proxies to help us when we go to war with China.
If America made chips here, we wouldn’t be stressed about Taiwan. If we drilled more in America, we wouldn’t have sacrificed blood and treasure in the Mideast.
Maybe we should think twice about offering any defense for Japan and Australia.
Taiwan FIRST needs to do something to defend itself.
It completely bans guns on the island, with gun control measures that would make a NY liberal blush
Their own army is tiny, and it’s staffed at only 2/3 strength anyway. They still have “conscription” but will allow their local soy boys to mop floors at a hospital instead of picking up a rifle. A business associate’s son just completed his “military training” - 4 months, weekends at home, and never fired a rifle the entire time.
All Taiwan elites have foreign passports and assets, so they will all be gone before any trouble starts. 15% of Taiwanese reside on Mainland China anyway, doing business, with family, studying, etc...
Screw this Taiwan/China war-mongering crap.
This is not MAGA.
Once we have the TSMC semiconductor plant operational in Arizona we’ll have less need of Taiwan. Anyways the Taiwanese people themselves are evenly divided concerning China with half of them willing to accept being absorbed by China. So not worth a world war over it.
Elbridge Colby... Harvard and Yale, from a filthy CIA family. (William Colby was his grandpa) Daddy was an investment banker. He’s never been shot at, and never will. Out there cheerleading for war and trying to get everyone (except him) involved.
Lowlife.
“ The Pentagon is urging Japan and Australia to clarify what role they would play if the U.S. and China went to war over Taiwan.”
I’ll take “roll over and show their bellies” for $1,000, Alex.
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I was docked in Nagasaki for a couple days a few months ago on a cruise. Across the harbor was the big Mitsubishi Heavy Industries military shipyard. This was a major military shipyard going back to WWII and probably the Russo-Japanese War. There were some very capable looking ships being worked on there, when I was there.
It is not very far west from there to Shanghai. And the amount of merchant shipping in that part of the world is insane. I was looking at it all on one of the tracking sites. Your “all of Oceanic Asia” comment is spot on.