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| The dangerous cost of China's Ukraine trick on Team Biden |
| 2023-06-09 |
| [FoxNews] ...Washington establishment 'experts' rationalize that ending the flow of billions of dollars worth of weaponry to Ukraine will hand victory to Putin, emboldening Xi to invade Taiwan. It is the same characters who got every other foreign policy issue wrong -- Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Syria, and of course, the real Russia threat while focusing instead on the collusion hoax manufactured by the administrative security state. Truth is, Xi doesn’t need any extra encouragement to execute China’s decades old "One China" policy. Beijing vowed to "unify" the renegade province of Taiwan with mainland China back in 1949, including by force. China’s defense minister General Li Shangfu reminded us of this as recently as Thursday. In a meeting with Singapore’s defense chief Ng Eng Hen, Li told his Singaporean counterpart that the PLA will "absolutely not" renounce the use of force on Taiwan. On Sunday, Li strengthened his warning to Washington. During the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of some of the world’s top defense officials in Singapore, China’s defense chief stated that war between China and the United States would be an "unbearable disaster for the world." Establishment analysts, dominating U.S. elite media airwaves, interpreted Li’s statement as a sign of Beijing’s recognition of the need for Washington and Beijing to improve relations that are "at a record low." But what Li was actually doing is what is called in the intelligence business as strategic messaging. He was warning Washington to stay out of China’s perceived sphere of influence in Asia, lest it would incur "unbearable" costs. Consider the context of Li’s warnings. Last week, the Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu, rejected a U.S. offer to have Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meet with China’s counterpart Li Shangfu. Liu Pengyu implied the Pentagon was insincere in seeking communication and accused the U.S. of "seeking to suppress China through all possible means." For the past year, Chinese warships have been harassing U.S. Navy ships in the Taiwan Strait, with the last encounter taking place on Saturday, when a People’s Liberation Army Navy warship cut across the bow of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer, a distance of 150 yards. This provocation looked like a brazen attempt to instigate an incident. In his speech, China’s defense chief Li then told foreign militaries to "mind your own business," and not operate warships and aircraft close to China’s territorial waters, in order to avoid problems. He blamed Washington for the recent provocative encounters. Having Washington hyper-focused on Ukraine, pouring billions of dollars in military aid into yet another endless and unwinnable war suits Beijing perfectly. The Pentagon already has depleted crucial weapons stockpiles to such dangerous levels that U.S. forces would run out of existing precision weapons in less than a week in a potential war with China, according to a prominent Washington DC-based think tank. China, which already holds a military advantage over the U.S. by some measures -- having more ships, airplanes, and both offensive and defensive missiles – is overjoyed to see the Pentagon continue eroding American combat readiness in Ukraine. The U.S. security apparatus got caught off guard by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and has cost billions to taxpayers. Biden’s current preoccupation with Ukraine at the expense of preparing our military for an inevitable war with China will have a much steeper cost. In a high-intensity shooting war with a "peer adversary," as the Pentagon terms China, U.S. forces would highly likely sustain tens of thousands of casualties. Or more. Washington’s getting duped into staying focused on Ukraine is dangerous for America. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |