Posted on 08/05/2022 12:17:01 PM PDT by Perseverando
CHINA is convinced it now needs to hit America "hard and early " in a surprise Pearl Harbor-style attack to invade Taiwan, a leading expert has warned.
Oriana Skylar Mastro, a fellow at Stanford University and a former China analyst at the Pentagon, told The Sun Online how Beijing increasingly views an invasion of the island as inseparable from a war with the US.
It comes as massive Chinese military exercises are currently taking place off Taiwan following the visit by US politician Nancy Pelosi.
She is the third in line to the presidency and the most senior US figure to visit the self-governing island in decades.
Mastro told The Sun Online these types of blockade war games are set to become more commonplace as the threat of war increasingly looms.
She explained that Beijing now believes it also has to fight the US if it is to fulfil its long cherished goal of invading Taiwan and "reuniting" with the mainland.
Mastro believes the most likely way such a conflict would play out is with a Pearl Harbor-style attack on US forces in the region.
It would be designed to try and knock out US forces so they could not react to stop China gaining a foothold in Taiwan, which it regards as its territory.
The strategic gamble would be an attempt to stall a wider war - just as Japan hoped when they attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, drawing the US into World War Two.
It would be one of the chilling factors China would have to weigh up if decides the only way to "reunification" with Taiwan is an invasion.
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This is The United States. We can do anything we put our mind
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This is not the same country is was in the 1940’s. Most of the conflicts we’ve got involved in since then haven’t turned out very well for us.
Exactly right. We’ve already given China the green light.
Kirby said it straight up.
Correct. We used to be a proud, strong and respected democratic republic. Not so much today.
It actually would have if the Japanese won Midway. And we could've very easily lost Midway.
The Reds dont have to invade Taiwan. They can blockade it.
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Exactly. They are showing their hand.
Re: This is not the same country is was in the 1940’s. Most of the conflicts we’ve got involved in since then haven’t turned out very well for us.
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Yep, the Taliban can certainly vouch for that. 😱
Good questions all.
We are at best a dysfunctional kleptocracy.
We are a republic in name only.
Decoded Purple intercepts helped at Midway.
I still remember this cartoon fondly. Ah, Bloom county. I’m almost so jealous of Binkley - if only he hadn’t gotten greedy. :P
If you can read minds you could go into palm reading and make a fortune.
China: two million poorly-trained only sons army.
India: One platoon of Indian army Gurkhas.
Result: China loses.
That will be our downfall if we don't change that. In WW2 we had the ability to bring lots of tonnage of ships and aircraft on line quickly. Attrition would kill us now.
Yeah slick willie let them have the w-88 warhead and guidance
China plays the Taiwan issue for the people at home. In reality they’re not going to invade Taiwan and incur the same sanctions as Russia got with Ukraine. China is dependent on world markets to keep hundreds of millions of Chinese employed.
No market access means millions of Chinese sitting around with nothing better to do that to start killing government officials.
Taiwan just isn’t worth the cost. It’s of more use to China as a scapegoat for the failures of the CCP.
That said, I do believe China is planning and rehearsing for an invasion...of Russia.
We have grown soft and weak, putting the weakest we have in charge. We have overlooked corruption and made pitiful excuses for the press. Nobody is held accountable for anything I believe we can pull ourselves up again; but we have abused the very groups of people who created America, built America, forged everything that our country depends upon - and now have made the white man the scapegoat of every evil in history. When the times become brutal, look at who runs away, who preys upon the weak; and who puts their back against the wheel and either wins, or dies trying There is a reason why the world is the way it is; and a reason why those who want to destroy America have targeted the white man. I offer human history as my evidence
Apparently they’ve forgotten what happened to Japan after pearl harbor.🙄
OK, now you went from hilarious to absurd.
I mean think about it. They cannot tackle Taiwan but they will invade Russia?
Thanks for making the forum interesting for a laugh.
They may have a war machine but their economy is hurting to keep it going their economy is about a little over half of ours plus Xi is up for reelection not a wise move if they do plus the factor of the other world powers.
India would love to help take them down
Thank goodness we don’t have any mean tweets coming from the White House. I think that , massive inflation, global instability, food and energy shortages and a recession are small prices to pay.
Don’t think that they would have much luck hiding their carriers.
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