China and Taiwan; U.S. Options For Regional Security

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Duke Woodhull opines that Xi believes that a blustering, threatening approach will so thoroughly discourage Taiwan’s potential defenders, that a fully-mobilized invasion of Taiwan will not even be required.

Macron: Europe’s ‘greatest risk’ is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours’ – like Taiwan

Following six hours of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to a Politico reporter and two French journalists aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One this weekend. He discussed his concept of “strategic autonomy for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a third superpower.” Specifically, Macron said Europe’s “greatest risk” …

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: The Future of the Joint Russia-China Declaration

REARRANGING THE WORLD ON RUSSIAN AND CHINESE TERMS On 4 February with great fanfare, communist China and Russia announced a new strategic partnership, as explained in their Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development, an English version of which was posted on the Kremlin’s official website here. …

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Communist China’s 4-7 August 2022 Exercise Off Taiwan; Chinese Saber Rattling and Intimidation by Captain Carl O. Schuster, US Navy Retired

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) just conducted a multi-day coordinated “exercise” in six locations that effectively surrounded Taiwan, which Beijing claimed was in response to US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taipei on 2 August.

WARNING: China Poised to Invade Taiwan’s Offshore Islands

Quemoy and Matsu, officially known as the Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties respectively, are groups of islands located directly off the coast of mainland Communist China, but are under the administration of the Republic of China, Taiwan. In the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the People’s Republic of China shelled …

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When Russia Invades and When China Invades

2022 has already seen Russia invade Ukraine and China may follow suit and invade Taiwan. Both invasions come at the invitation of American weakness watched by the world when the Taliban took Afghanistan. The fall of Afghanistan and American bug out demonstrated incompetence as well as cowardice over commitment. Russia and China know they can …

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