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CODE RED China ‘convinced it needs to hit US with Pearl Harbor-style surprise attack’ to win war over Taiwan, expert warns
The Sun ^ | August 5, 2022 | Tariq Tahir

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; pearlharbor; taiwan; ww3
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To: Mariner
The author and the “expert” are full of sh!t.

China KNOWS they are totally outclassed and cannot prevail.

They will not attack US forces directly for at least a couple of decades, if ever.

I seriously doubt China would come to the dance alone. What do you think Russia, North Korea, Iran would be doing during the "Pearl Harbor" style attack and afterwards?

Have we ever been weaker than now with FJB, Pelosi, Schumer and our current DOD and military leadership?

How many weapons and systems have we provided the Taliban and Ukraine?

And our military has gotten all their clot shots and are all caught up on their diversity training. Yeah, they're ready to go!

41 posted on 08/05/2022 12:44:51 PM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: jpp113

“They won’t make the same mistake as the Japs, they’ll take out our carriers first, “

Nope. Fentanyl ...


42 posted on 08/05/2022 12:45:26 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: BenLurkin

Wow harkens back to the old Whitewater boards on Prodigy


43 posted on 08/05/2022 12:45:32 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Jim Noble

“Neither does China if they attack military targets in the open ocean.”

And, you think that’s it? It all stops right there?

Son, you are naïve.


44 posted on 08/05/2022 12:47:13 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: dead
It worked out so well for the Japanese empire.

Only because it "awakened a sleeping giant."

45 posted on 08/05/2022 12:47:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: jpp113

Command and control is what matters these days.

Military communications satellites would have to be the first targets.


46 posted on 08/05/2022 12:47:47 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: TexasGator
Nope. Fentanyl ...

Ok. Now THAT is something that I can be legit worried about.
47 posted on 08/05/2022 12:48:06 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: ought-six
More likely, they’ll try to Hong Kong them. China will encourage the Democrats to pull back from support of Taiwan, and will enter into a Hong Kong style agreement granting autonomy, etc. Then it will squeeze Taiwan and take it over.

Yes. That's the most likely scenario to me.
48 posted on 08/05/2022 12:50:26 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Perseverando

Only one thing isn’t congruent; the sneak attack factor can’t work if we have all been discussing the pros and cons of the Chinese invasion to take over Taiwan for years.

Overhead space imaging keeps track of the slow moving ships minute by minute. It could still be an invasion but not a surprise.

Maybe the Chinese could ship hundreds of Teslas and their batteries to Taiwan and in the middle of the night they could burst into flames and then the troops could arrive to invade.


49 posted on 08/05/2022 12:51:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger
Maybe the Chinese could ship hundreds of Teslas and their batteries to Taiwan and in the middle of the night they could burst into flames and then the troops could arrive to invade.

Or...now hear me out...they can send tons of those little "finger traps" and give them away for free. The catch? They're defective and don't release when you push your fingers together.
50 posted on 08/05/2022 12:53:53 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Perseverando

Stupid “historic” Nanzi Pelosi had to take her dumb ass vacation in Taiwan this year. What a moron. How is this supposed to help me when I go to the gas station to buy fuel or need to buy food for my family. The bitch is supposed to be working for Americans. Not foreigners. What the hell is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives doing in Taiwan? Geez. What a retard.


51 posted on 08/05/2022 12:56:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: Perseverando

Excellent interview. It’s also up on odysee

https://odysee.com/@ManInAmerica:6/breaking-china-mobilizing-for-taiwan-2:d


52 posted on 08/05/2022 12:56:22 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: All

Best guess they would do what the Egyptians did in 73...practice a Sinai invasion again and again until the Israelis assume the next one is a practice and then they launch the real attack hoping to catch everyone off guard.


53 posted on 08/05/2022 12:58:15 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: Mariner

It never gets mentioned but the entire chicom military is financed by the interest we pay them on the US bonds they hold. Those payments would stop instantly after an attack and the entire chicom machine would have to hitchhike home. Not to mention their export market would be gone by the next Monday morning.

Actually taking Taiwan would be a pyric victory for the ages, I expect, they would walk into burned out chip factories, etc. Remember Pelousy’s longest stop was with the TSM guy. They had to be talking about the possible next move.


54 posted on 08/05/2022 12:59:06 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: Hodar

Correct. This is The United States. We can do anything we put our mind, and will to. As you say. We have the resources. More than enough.


55 posted on 08/05/2022 12:59:11 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Perseverando

Should’a nuked ‘em back in the 1950s...


56 posted on 08/05/2022 1:00:11 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Perseverando

This clown administration just said last week that they support the one China policy. We won’t do Jack shit if/when they invade under the Biden administration


57 posted on 08/05/2022 1:00:11 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Perseverando

Movie night anyone?
How about “ On the Beach”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(2000_film)


58 posted on 08/05/2022 1:02:20 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Perseverando

No sale. The Chinese would use the anti-sats they have to knock out all of our key space assets. That will make a mess with no GPS, no weather, and communications limited and overloaded. At the same time, Chinese hackers would disrupt utilities, banks, military and government activities, cellular communications, and the internet.

They could then invade claiming that those were defensive steps to prevent the US from interfering with Chinese internal issues stopping short of actual attacks on personnel and ships. Let the communist (US) media swarm the US with propaganda, combined with the chaos they caused, and the expected quick war (like everyone always expects before a war starts). They would expect to paralyze the US for long enough to complete the conquest. The Chinese would believe we would be unwilling and unable to retake Taiwan.


59 posted on 08/05/2022 1:08:50 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: MotorCityBuck

I feel sorry for you. the Will of the country is gone


60 posted on 08/05/2022 1:10:55 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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