Many crisis's occured....which saw U.S. carrier battlegroups posture near Taiwan.
Collectively..the number of U.S. naval assets which were assigned revealed the game at hand.
China [DESIRES] political tension.
Its a game that satifies their Ego on many levels.
It makes the "Court of Heaven" in Bejing feel good about itself..and provides attention on a Global scale.
One needs ask...how much does it cost to keep one carrier parked near Taiwan per day...then add all the other ships..plus logistical support...plus regional bases.
Now make that 3 carrier battlegroups.
China is basically playing an extortion reality.
The Taiwan issue is not really..China regain her holding,
Its China bang pots and pans..and make the U.S. spend Trillions maintaining military projection.
China knows the U.S. is not going to attack them..so its a convenient game.
Like servants scurrying about the periphery of the Palace,
China makes the U.S. come and go..they really do.
When things ease off ..China sets the demand bar a little higher..and forces the U.S. to respond to their move.
This is War...on a different level.
If I can sit in my Palace in Bejing..and make you Run around and spend Trillions...I AM more the master of the region than you.
It is no strange reality that North Korea is empowered...[Just so...Just enough]..so as to force the U.S. to spend Trillions maintaining an Army in South Korea..and regional military projection.
Currently..things are very tense concerning N.K.
Senator Joe Biden was interviewed this past weekend..and to some degree..I think he let slip the line in the sand which the House is having to contend with.
Joe's comment was this.."China must bring N.K. to the table to talk....talks must begin soon..or the U.S. will have no alternative but to choose a military option...he mentioned 6 months.
We may percieve that the U.S. will just parlay the tough talk endlessly..yet I suspect the seriousness of N.K.'s Nuclear shell game to be a very real threat..one which has a time limit set.
China knows this too...so now comes the dance....how long will China stall..and how far will they push this game which basically draws all regional issues to their Palace court.
N.K. is using a few Nukes as an extortion reality ..set against the Worlds Super power.
At some point..the U.S. has to say enough.
The message is dire...as others will see that the U.S. can be extorted via WMD.
. It will not be to long before N.K. is capable of miniturizing or building low yield micro nukes...and once they do..they can refit most of the Islamist/Fascists SCUDS..and in a few months..the U.S. and Israel will face an extortion reality off the scale.
Its unlikely ..Little Israel is going to sit back and allow the Arab arsenals to convert their warheads.
Iran..Syria..Egypt..will probably see Israel pre-empt.
To some degree the U.S. presence in the Mid -east is also a stemming action to blunt this conversion path..but it is a race against time.
Israels defence leaders conceed a missile war as near certianty in the future.
Israel has at best a 7 minute window to knock down missiles fired at them from regional nations.
This is a reality where..If you get it wrong just once via Intel..it could be a cascade reality leading to a Samson option.
Syria had an incident occur at an underground missile complex near their fire command chain in HOMS...Syria claimed a chemical accident..yet intel sites such as Janes ,Stratfor and Monterry Strategic studies hint that a covert opp by Israel and the U.S. occured while Bashar Assad was away at the Beriut summit.
Many North Korean technitions were killed as the SCUD C/D facility went up...noted by the intel sites...North Korea did a quick about face..and requested the U.S. come to the negotiating table.
U.S. and Israel will not allow the game's to go on...Iran,China are playing with fire on this one..other nations know aswell..that the game is very dangerous..such as Russia.
Pre-emptive action has allready occured.
If the U.S. does not contend with China,Iran and N.K.
The mid east will be tooled up with micro nukes
It will only be a matter of time before Israel pre-empts..and this would require tunneling nukes to ensure the deep layered facilites are terminated.
This is the unspoken reality of the term.."Axis of Evil"..its a war The U.S. must win..or this planet goes into WW-3.