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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NASA need to hire that rocket scientist quick!
It worked out so well for the Japanese empire.
Smells like BS!
Would probably work this time around. We can’t manufacture squat nowadays.
Just think of this happening with either FJB or the Laughing Hyena as President.
The only way they’re going to catch anyone by surprise is if they pretend to be backing down. And even then not very likely.
“Because that worked out so well for Imperial Japan”. FFS
Perhaps China didn’t read all the way to the end of how the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor ended
lol
this isn’t 1940’s
we don’t need a single soldier on that side of the world to retaliate if attacked.
This article is BS.
The CCP would probably choose a time when all our military branches are having a service wide drag queen competition, or more likely just after the competition during the celebratory activities.
Is this “expert” So expert that he understands he is helping to start world war 3?
Is it just another diabolical narcissist with a government paycheck who feels he needs to be heard and that “.. if everyone just listened to him and did what he told them to event would be fine? “
People like this could be the next Fauci.
Slick Willy sold them the technology for them to have the ability to do it.
Just because we do not manufacture here anymore; doesn’t not mea. We cannot. We have the raw materials, we have the educational backbone and we simply lack the political will
As we have seen; that all can change in a single election
They won’t make the same mistake as the Japs, they’ll take out our carriers first, then the rest of the fleet. They learned from Japan’s mistakes 80 years ago
Not sure I’d want to be in the Pacific Fleet right now.
China is not going to start World War 3 over Taiwan.
China hit India hard and went home in tears.
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