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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Although we lost number one in 2011, we are still number 2 in manufacturing.
Then Japan, Germany, and South Korea.
Yep. And Communist leaders are expert at using food (or the lack of) as a weapon to get people's attention and to control them as they starve them into submission and/or death.
Keep an eye on the food supply. You think maybe prices are going up in part due to lack of supply, and not just high gas and diesel prices?
I don’t think China wants to kick off WW3 all in an effort to exert control over Taiwan.
We can thank Obama's DOD "sleepers" and his perfumed princes for weakening our military and undemining our national defense readiness.
I agree. What better time than now to go for the whole enchilada, especially with Manchurian Joe at the helm?
I don't remember cheering. I do recall commenting that you should not do the crime so you won't do the time.
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USS Ward.
Agree. We’re not the same country we were in the 1940’s.
Our ethos, national character, morality, etc. have changed in profound ways since then.
Wokeness is our weakness.
“What do you think Russia, North Korea, Iran would be doing during the “Pearl Harbor” style attack and afterwards?”
How do you find a thousand people crazy enough to force the US to use nukes, or lose?
A thousand people in 4 different countries willing to commit suicide simultaneously...people of power. Normally rational people.
Generals and political executives.
the Laughing Hyena as President
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This says more about the state of this country than it does about Harris. The fact that she could be president at any moment is a reflection of the body politic.
Oh I hope they won’t wake that sleeping giant again. His resolves are terrible.
Perhaps China didn’t read all the way to the end of how the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor ended
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Maybe not, but China is banking on the US no longer being the country it once was. And they may be right.
Their economy is already in a tank and their population has been starving for years.
As long as this administration remains in power, China could very well invade Taiwan and we will stand by and watch.........
Astute post. People and countries tend to do things that worked for them in the past.
China can cut off shipments of necessary medications to this country overnight leaving hundreds of millions of Americans in a desperate situation. Just saying.
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.
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Its not about us. Its about them. The elites that rule over us.
As long as this administration remains in power, China could very well invade Taiwan and we will stand by and watch.........
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I agree. We will bluster and posture but do little to nothing to defend Taiwan.
Taiwan is very naive and trusting.
It never gets mentioned but the entire chicom military is financed by the interest we pay them on the US bonds they hold.
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Well that and the technology they stole from us, or we gave them.
We essentially helped build China’s military capabilities.
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