US Rushes to Provoke War With a Growing Chinese Army: Admits Taiwan will be Destroyed
A brief summary:
Brian Berletic takes a look at statements in the US Department of State website under "US-Taiwan Relationship".
The US wants to continue arms sales to Taiwan even though these arms are in short supply due to shipments to Ukraine. Lists some of the weapons.
China doesn't need to set foot on Taiwan. A likely strategy is to cut off Taiwan from the outside world using long range precision missile strikes from the mainland, particularly on Taiwan's three main ports. Its essentially a blockade by air and sea. There may be no need for China to encircle Taiwan. Simply set up a single humanitarian sea corridor linking China to Taiwan to deliver essentials. It would be politically difficult for the US or Taiwan militaries to justify striking at this lifeline which is providing essentials to the island.
A headline from the Washington Post is titled: "Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show." They look at a paper published by the US "Center For Strategic And International Studies" titled: "The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan". They admit that armed forces on Taiwan would not be able to confront and stop any sort of Chinese military operation (via a landing operation).The US would have to immediately intervene militarily (within a few days at most), possibly totally destroying Taiwan. It then becomes a US-China war.
Beyond 2025 China knows that a military operation to reunify Taiwan will become less and less necessary as the global leverage that the US has begins to dwindle. It's why the US is in such a hurry.
The US is actively preparing for war with China. It's the US containment policy that increases the possibility of conflict, not China. A war on Taiwan soil will lead to both China and the US destroying much of the infrastructure.
Charts of exports and imports to Taiwan both show that China dominates by a huge margin. Hard to replace. Includes essential inputs for Taiwan's semiconductor and electrical components industry.
A Bloomberg article chimes in on risk to TSMC. (Paraphrasing): Biden has an acute dilemma. The US could consider evacuating Taiwan's highly skilled chip engineers. Alternatively, the US could destroy TSMC facilities if the island was occupied to deprive Beijing. Any scenarios contemplating war in Taiwan would utterly devastate the country. This destroys the notion that the US is involved in Taiwan to protect Taiwan. The US itself is threatening Taiwan with import control measures to force them to send their semiconductor industry to the US, or to at least share the technology with the US while it still can. That is, stripping Taiwan of anything valuable and then setting it up for total destruction.
An article in Gizmodo magazine is titled: "Taiwan Official Explains With Extreme Calm Why the US Doesn't Need to Blow Up TSMC if China Invades."An easier way is to choke TSMC's own international supply chains!
