Posted on 03/05/2025 4:03:17 PM PST by VAFreedom
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared early Wednesday that the US is “prepared” to go to war with China, hours after alarming threats from Beijing in response to President Trump’s stiff new tariffs.
“We’re prepared,” Hegseth said on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” in response to China saying it was “ready to fight” any “type of war.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
China, the Europeans, Ukraine, Russia. The whole world suddenly bellicose for war
It is start to feel like 1914 again.
It sure is nice for Europe to fight Russia for us. I wonder who President Trump will cajole into fighting China for us too?
Saying “we’re prepared” is not the same thing.
Well, do you think we should let the Chinese threaten us, or do you call their bluff and set them straight.
Big talk. Part of negotiations.
Trump knows this.
China shoots their mouth off. The WH is expected to respond and they turn it over to the Pentagon. Appropriate.
I am so glad the anti tariff free trader smartys made sure about half our manufacturing base is now in foreign countries, a lot of it in China no less. Good job you far sighted winners, good job!!!! /sarc
Only this time with nuclear weapons.
Hopefully,, this statement is only a part of what used to be called ‘Saber Rattling’, or using aggressive rhetoric to define your country’s position. That would be a huge undertaking. Would make the Ukraine/Russian War look like
a child’s game by comparison.
I suspect China already has several score of their loyal citizens embedded into our country, ready to act at the bidding of President Xi Jinping.
Until very recently, they even had their own “police stations” within large blue states like New York. I believe those facilities are for Chinese-Americans who act to obstruct the will of President Xi.
If we get into shooting war with China then does this give license to patriot/nationalist/protectionists that wanted high trade barriers to hunt down free traitors™???
Exactly right
Free trade and offshoring leaves us no choice. We no longer have the industrial chops to slog it out with China. The USA is for all intents an purposes, a developing industrial nation.
Imagine if we had offshored our industrial capacity to Japan in the 1920s, when we were still on good terms with them.
The US is responding to a threat MADE BY CHINA
Try actually reading the article instead of posting to the headline
In recent years, the Western world has seen a shift in the way Chinese diplomacy is conducted. In contrast with Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of “keeping a low profile,” Chinese officials have more openly expressed controversial thoughts, often with negative ramifications for bilateral relations with other countries. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this behavior has become known as “wolf warrior diplomacy
https://www.nbr.org/publication/understanding-chinese-wolf-warrior-diplomacy/
> Big talk. Part of negotiations. <
Right. Plus the NY Post is very much like most UK papers. They can’t resist sensationalizing every headline.
It was never free trade since other countries were employing protectionism.
Well, the Pacific is much larger than the Atlantic... Maybe we can get Japan, ROK and ROC to team up. Philippines and Vietnam can supply cannon fodder.
100% correct!
We’ve outsourced damn near everything we USED TO MAKE!
NOT SMART!!!!!!!
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