Posted on 01/22/2023 4:41:18 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday renewed alarm over Beijing's intentions over Taipei and said China is "no longer comfortable" with status quo on Taiwan. Antony Blinken said the world is concerned about Taiwan now because it saw what happened to Hong Kong in the past few years, reported Taiwan News.
Blinken spoke about Beijing's constant growing efforts to isolate the nation and the major military exercises it carried out near it in August.
Beijing has upped its military activity and routinely sends several warplanes and vessels towards Taiwan to intimidate the island. It has also warned foreign delegations visiting the island nation that they are "playing with fire".
"What we've seen over the last few years is, I think, China make a decision that it was no longer comfortable with the status quo, a status quo that had prevailed for decades that had actually been successful in terms of the relationship between our countries and managing what is a difficult situation," he was quoted as saying by The Taiwan News.
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“ that had actually been successful in terms of the relationship between our countries and managing what is a difficult situation”
Obviously it has not been successful or there wouldn’t be the Chicom problem.
Anthony Bliken should know what the Chinese are thinking. He was working for him and Biden UPENN center... The CCP paid that center Millions of dollars.
The aggressor in any war must have two things before beginning a war, intention and ability. When Japan attacked the US they had the intention for war but lacked the ability to win (their goal was to cripple the Pacific Fleet so the US could not respond to their aggression in the area.)
Japan’s error was that they went for the battleships and not the the carriers (which were all out at sea at the time) and they miscalculated on how quickly the US could mobilize both industry and manpower.
China has the intention, but does China have the ability to take Taiwan? For an answer just look at the current war between Ukraine and Russian. The Chinese and Russian have a lot in common, mainly top down management and corruption.
Those at the top give the orders but never like to hear “bad news” so those on the bottom never tell the truth about their readiness, which is poor because everyone within the system is skimming a little for themselves.
In a war between China and Taiwan the advantage is to Taiwan as the defender (and being an island, and having close to 70 years to prepare defenses).
Short of biological and or nuclear weapons China it is not likely that China would win such a war (India routinely kicks their butts, and in their last war Viet Nam did the same and it should be noted that none of those conflicts required crossing a large body of water.
Stinkin and Garlad were both involved in the Penn Center Stink tank.
Give Taiwan a couple hundred nukes and China will leave them alone. No one dies, no one gets oppressed.
BRICs
Russia was supposed to take over the Crimea oil fields and use energy as leverage to keep the EU out of the China / Taiwan conflict. When that did not happen, China had to rethink it’s timeline. This delay is providing an opportunity for Taiwan nd it’s neighbors to fortify their military and defenses.
But China still thinks it can retake Taiwan.
The larger war is the fight over the global currency.
China was always the real goal for ridding us of competition in the superpower race.
“However, despite undeniable successes in the process of weakening the economy of a European competitor, the American Democratic Party, historically a supporter of achieving goals through armed conflict, made a strategic mistake by refusing to follow the recommendations of Donald Trump for the need to level relations and make peace with a traditional adversary, which is Russia, in order to ensure that the latter does not become a significant (energy and food) pillar in relation to the main enemy of the United States—China—at a time when a big clash with the latter will take place.
At the end of the conflict in Ukraine, the third great war of the American dollar, there will inevitably be a fourth, with China, the exact nature of which we have yet to discover.
But despite China’s maintenance of the status quo with regard to Russian actions in Ukraine, due to direct threats of serious sanctions coming from the collective West led by the United States, and the latter making a bitter statement of fact—the Sino-Russian alliance has remained unshaken.
As in the case of the confrontation in Ukraine and the previously mentioned wars, it is important to note the facts that, on the one hand, the United States’ war against China is inevitable, and, on the other hand—the real reasons for the future war are again and in many ways the desire of China to evade the petrodollar system—which is “classic” and absolute casus belli from Washington’s point of view.
There are a number of facts that put the Americans in need to act tough, of which we can name the main ones:
China initiated crude oil purchases from Iran in 2012, paying in yuan. From Iran, whose oil contracts have already been denominated in euros since 2016, with a rejection of the U.S. dollar.
In 2015, China launched futures—oil futures contracts at the Shanghai Futures Exchange—whose main purpose is to carry out transactions through RMB swaps between Russia and China and between Iran and China—which is a new strategic element of Chinese geopolitics.
In 2017, China, with its 8.4 million barrels per day of crude oil imports, became the world’s largest importer of crude oil and, at the same time, signed an agreement with the Russian Central Bank aimed at buying Russian oil in Chinese currency.
In 2022, as we saw earlier, the PRC is entering into an agreement with Saudi Arabia to buy oil also in renminbi.
And these processes, let me remind you, are taking place in parallel with the slow but progressive getting rid of U.S. Treasury bonds, the number of which in China has fallen by ¼ over the past 7 years.
An analysis of the initiatives taken by the Celestial Empire in foreign economic policy over the last decade clearly demonstrates the exponentially increasing threat to the viability of the current U.S. economic model. Only radical measures taken by the United States authorities against the Chinese adversary can stop, or at least try to slow down, the process of undermining the foundations of the world economy built by America since the end of World War II.
In this logic, a Chinese armed attack on Taiwan is an absolutely necessary precedent for the United States. Everything will be done to ensure that this Chinese initiative takes place.”
https://www.thepostil.com/conflict-in-ukraine-genesis/
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