Posted on 11/25/2020 11:19:49 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
CHINA is upping the stakes in the South China Sea region with the deployment of a massive amphibious assault vehicle capable of carrying almost 1,000 troops - with analysts suggesting it significantly enhanced Beijing's military power in the disputed waterway.
The South China Sea, which China claims sovereignty of 90 percent of, is regarded as a potential major flashpoint with the West, with Beijing having fortified numerous islands there. The report, published on the website of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, was written by Matthew Funaiole, a Senior Fellow with the think tank's China Power Project, and Joseph Bermudez Jr, Senior Fellow for Imagery Analysis.
The pictures show the Type 075 in the waters near Wuchuan on November 3 and moored at Yulin Naval Base on November 12.
Subsequent images date November 17 indicate it had been joined by a support group of at least five vessels.
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Invade TAIWAN ON January 21, 2021...............
If Biden is ever sworn in as President, the second he lifts his hand off the Bible Quran, China will invade Taiwan and that'll be the end of that.
It is the policy of the United States-
(1) to preserve and promote extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the people on the China mainland and all other peoples of the Western Pacific area;(2) to declare that peace and stability in the area are in the political, security, and economic interests of the United States, and are matters of international concern;
(3) to make clear that the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means;
(4) to consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States;
(5) to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character; and
(6) to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan.
Yet.
Beijing biden would help them get that capability in no time. Think, Clinton's "help."
“Let’s hope the Chicoms are in for the rudest of all rude awakenings when they discover that they’re going to have to deal with a very pissed-off Trump for the next four years.”
Amen!!
Fried dog.
It's Thanksgiving.
I'd give a dollar to hear someone from the press ask the "Big Man" about that very thing...
Under Trump, I trust that U.S. Navy Air can sink anything it is directed to.
Under Biden, I trust he will help China invade Taiwan if so directed by his superior, Xi.
What a joke.
Here are just SIX of our amphibious assault ships...
Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD/LHA) Info Page
LHD Marine Detachment: 1,687 troops (x4)
LHA Marine Detachment 1,900 plus (x2)
Looking at the comments, I’m a little surprised that there is no inertia toward staying out of a China/Taiwan conflict. Why?
In my strongest opinion, US intervention in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would absolutely escalate very quickly with US bombing and missile strikes on the Chinese mainland. If the Chinese start losing (which they would) I think the Chinese would respond very quickly with nukes targeting US naval and other assets in the Pacific. Then it’s basically an all-out nuclear war.
What is it about Taiwan that makes it in our interest to risk a near-certain nuclear exchange or all out nuclear war? I find nothing at all other than a feeling that Taiwan’s independence should be respected and defended. But at what cost?
But at present, I don’t see how China could pull it off anyway. I’ve read some scenarios where they use thousands of neutron bomb-armed missiles and eliminate the Taiwanese military and most of the citizens. That would make sense. But they still have to occupy the island, ie move thousands and thousands of troops across the straits. No way could they do that now without comandeering thousands of fishing boats. Possible. Likely? Not sure.
But anyway, I would not want to risk an all-out nuclear war for the sake of preserving Taiwan. Not for one second.
Someone make a counter-argument why preserving Taiwan is neccessary to our national security and how that means risking a nuclear war that will kill millions worthwhile. Or, how you think a conventional war would not lead very quickly to a nuclear exchange.
I’ve been following the South China Sea thing for a while. I figure I can assume that if Joe is sworn in, China invades Taiwan, takes it, and we do nothing.
Chinese survey stake?
“Leaving the Biden administration fools with a good hot war is justice“
No .
I won’t be like the a$$holes that for 4 years wished the worst for Trump.
They are @&$”ing traitors .
I want the best for our nation even if Moscow Joe is President .
We will survive him.
We survived FDR and Obama.
There is quite a bit of difference between going to war to achieve a regime change (Iraq or Syria) and defending an independent country from a hostile state (Taiwan). We need to help our allies defend themselves.
Warms my heart that China spent so much time and money in making such a state of the art vessel for invading the U.S.A.
Not without deep wounds that still won't heal. We can't afford to keep taking more blows like that.
They’re planning a Harris/ Biden presidency.
When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, the standard rule concerning edible livestock was that any critter that has a name is safe from becoming Sunday dinner.
My sister and I had a pet turkey named “Tom” (how original...hey, we were kids) that we raised from a ‘chick’ and he was imprinted with the image of us being his mom.
He followed us around constantly like a spare shadow and always came out to meet us, getting off the school bus each afternoon. He’d come out and fan out his feathers and strut around a bit. It was his main, possibly only, talent.
In early November, word leaked out to us that he was going to be the main course for Thanksgiving dinner. The old rule had been over-ridden and Tom was about to be “axed” literally.
Come the day before Thanksgiving, we all dreaded what was about to happen and nobody would volunteer to be his executioner. Just thinking about it spread through the family to where we were all nearly in tears.
Happy ending:
We couldn’t bear to kill Tom for dinner, so we ate the dog.
In retrospect, perhaps we should have named the dog...
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