Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’

Bloomberg | October 17, 2022 at 5:13 PM CDT | Iain Marlow

[Vaden]

China’s military is an even bigger disaster than Russia’s. They also suffer from the graft/corruption problem. Many of China’s “new” weapons are plastic or wooden models, and many don’t work even if produced. Not to mention that Chinese troops have no combat experience.

Taiwan, by contrast, has 2,000,000 well trained (in Western ways) troops and is armed to the teeth with advanced weapons. China’s “blockade” will be sunk and the troops will never make it across the Strait.

[Wallace T.]

Why did the Biden Administration ban American citizens from working in the Chinese semiconductor industry? The FDR Administration wanted to get the U.S. involved in World War II by banning the sale of oil to the Japanese. You have to wonder if Biden and his handlers are deliberately poking the dragon just as, by generously supplying Ukraine, they are poking the bear.

The West has been fortunate that the Russians were overconfident and that the Ukrainians have fought their enemy well. But do Biden (or his staff), Liz Truss in Britain, and Macron in France want to throw the Western militaries, crippled by woke politics and underfunded armies, navies, and air forces,against China or Russia should Ukraine or Taiwan succumb to their respective bullies?

[Scarlett156]

Now see? You have had an interesting life. :P xoxo Kristi

[GOPJ]

...do Biden (or his staff), Liz Truss in Britain, and Macron in France want to throw the Western militaries, crippled by woke politics and underfunded armies, navies, and air forces,against China or Russia should Ukraine or Taiwan succumb to their respective bullies?

From someone's perspective these seemingly irrational choices make sense. That's what we need to understand. How and why...

[Wallace T.]

From someone's perspective these seemingly irrational choices make sense.

I don't know why the Western leadership is assuming that if the Russians or the Chinese triumph over the respective small countries they are bullying, that NATO or an American Japanese and Australian military combination will win. You must question their rationality when:
*They push the green agenda at the same time Russian oil and natural gas have been cut off on the West's own initiative;
*They deplete military stockpiles to give to the Ukrainians while having no strategy to speed up replacements.
*They fail to adequately staff their militaries and to provide state of the art equipment in sufficient numbers.
*They run multi-trillion dollar/euro/pound sterling deficits in a rising interest rate environment.

We are either dealing with very delusional thinking, on the order of Hitler in the last few years of World War II or Chinese and Russian influence is so great that the leaders are acting in clear violation of their national interests.