Topic: Washington "One-China" Policy Dead As Pompeo Lifts Restrictions On US-Taiwan

[Libertas]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-one-china-policy-dead-pompeo-lifts-restrictions-us-taiwan-relations

Should have been day one.  Anyway, makes a nice stumbling block for the illegitimate ChinaJoe-HeelsUpHo regime.

[patentlymn]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-one-china-policy-dead-pompeo-lifts-restrictions-us-taiwan-relations

Should have been day one.  Anyway, makes a nice stumbling block for the illegitimate ChinaJoe-HeelsUpHo regime.

Trump left a rake for Biden to step on. If Biden undoes this it will look like he is owned by China.

[Libertas]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-one-china-policy-dead-pompeo-lifts-restrictions-us-taiwan-relations

Should have been day one.  Anyway, makes a nice stumbling block for the illegitimate ChinaJoe-HeelsUpHo regime.

Trump left a rake for Biden to step on. If Biden undoes this it will look like he is owned by China.

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts neither he, his co-illegitimate VicePerpetrator, the Wicked Witch of the House and her sh*t-tossing monkeys or Chuck-U Schumer and his bitchez (including those Quisling pubbie bastards!), PravdaMedia, Gosplan-FauxCapitalisti and the HollyweirdWhores will give a damn!  All that will happen is that people speaking the truth will be demonized and threatened with the ovens...might as well don our fvcking yellow stars now!

[Libertas]

OK, previous angry diatribe aside (and reserving the right to fire it up again at a moments notice) it appears (for now) JoeFraud is at least holding to the terms of the 1979 TWA and it is to be determined how firm that is in light of his past and current compromising positions and actions.

Overall this is a pretty decent run down of the strategic landscape in question.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/taiwan-new-geopolitical-and-economic-flash-point

I would like to know Todd's take on this, having on the ground experience.  I think the loss of this friend and ally would be devastating on so many levels...and the current US regime being composed of such sub-par and corrupt players and a military being transformed into parade queens leaves me very skeptical and nervous over the fate of the Taiwanese home and people.

[ToddF]

but the inevitable military conflict with the US and its allies will be catastrophic.

BS.  We don't have their back.  We won't even take the mild steps it would take to being China instantly to their knees.  Stop all trade.  Our $$ funds their military.  Our food feeds their people.

[Libertas]

but the inevitable military conflict with the US and its allies will be catastrophic.

BS.  We don't have their back.  We won't even take the mild steps it would take to being China instantly to their knees.  Stop all trade.  Our $$ funds their military.  Our food feeds their people.

Agreed, it is the one and major flaw in Mr. Yang's article...because it foolishly pins its hopes on JoeFraud shedding his compromising relations and betraying his Beijing pals...because what, doing the right thing will dawn on him in a miraculous moment?  Yeah, uhh huh.  And he cannot stop food and money to Communist China without angering his crony-capitalist bagmen and bundlers, angering the masters of the universe on Wall St...freaking out the paper-pushers at Treasury and the Neo-Keynesians at the Fed.  All I see is a feeble attempt at defense, "expert" (DeepState) advice to cut and run...and a shameful fleeing a la Saigon 1975.  And then the rest of the region's fate before the ravenous red dragon unfolds in the face of corrupt and cowardly JoeBamian capitulation...

ETA - Look at this treason...Pelosi's General on Chi-Com propaganda....

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/04/22/ex-general-picked-by-nancy-pelosi-to-review-capitol-security-appears-on-chinese-propaganda-network-1063595/

...should be receiving capital punishment for a treason conviction, not gaslighting US citizens and being a willing propaganda tool for the principle foreign communist nation on the planet!  Whose side you think this crap is on...and do you think it different than any other REMF at the Pentagon or DeepState advisor whispering behind White House doors?!

We know...too many don't want to.

[ToddF]

There are a bunch of "journalists" that have been revealed to have received junkets from China.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3952989/posts

Corrupt from top to bottom.

[Libertas]

Oh yeah...I linked the same here, just hand in hand with the rest of the DemCom collusion, corruption, infiltration and treason with hostile foreign powers...

The BS will only end when the price for treason is satisfied.

[Libertas]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-great-country

Mr. Yang is a fool or clinically brain dead...in no way will JoeFraud or his DemCom ilk put up much of a fuss if the Chi-Com's invade.

[Libertas]

This is equal parts "well, duh" and "where's Waldo?"...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/06/07/anticipating-war-with-china-the-us-air-force-is-spreading-across-the-pacific/?sh=28c4accd6d78

Lots of options...



...see anything missing?



Without the Philippines, especially Clark Field...and the all too obvious refusal to base anything on Taiwan itself...it falls to the Navy to fill the gap.

But Admirals are going to be loath to put big nuclear carriers and Amphibs into too much hazard and defending a ChiCom move on Taiwan would be all sorts of hazard...and with no amount of spreading Air Force assets in Japan and the Mariana's is going to be enough of a counter unless one goes to bombers over fighters (enter the Air Force's "hazard" avoidance)...the fall of Taiwan is certain because when the going gets tough they'll retreat.

Only a swift pivot to building a lot of fast low-cost baby-carriers similar to WWII can fill that gap and make a difference...and in no way does JoeFraud and the rest of the DemCom trash want to spend that money let alone spar with their Marxist pals...

Say goodbye and good luck to Taiwan.

[Libertas]

OK, this makes me nervous...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-now-says-taiwan-sovereignty-opportunity-counter-china

...seems the prima facie acceptance of the Trump Doctrine is paper thin posturing likely not to dissuade the Chi-Com Politburo from pursuing their invasion plans...

...the posture and cut and run I've feared coming is looking more certain...

[Libertas]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/xi-gives-blistering-taiwan-reunification-speech-vowing-foreign-meddlers-will-get-their

Heh, sounds like Xi hitting the rice wine pretty hard...

Happy 100th anniversary of death, destruction, oppression and lies...

 

[Libertas]

Might have to adjust this thread title..."One-China" policy might not be dead...it might be back-channel operative...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-approves-his-first-taiwan-arms-package-sale-ratcheting-china-tensions-further

This appears deceptive and underwhelming to me.  If the Chi-Com's come for Taiwan they'll use airpower first...soften it with missiles and bombs, take out command/control...target airbases (2 are underground requiring bunker-busters), fixed SAM/SAS sites and sub pens, ports, railways, bridges, fuel depots, etc...probably quickly followed by insertion of paramilitary forces mostly by air at night and inserted from sea by sub...then air-cover for the amphibious invasion.  Well, the latter only if they care to salvage the island somewhat intact...

So, mobile self-propelled Howitzer's make some sense...but not nearly enough if repelling a full-scale invasion is the goal. 

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.php?country1=taiwan&country2=china

https://armedforces.eu/compare/country_China_vs_Taiwan

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/taiwan/weapons.htm

Taiwan has a small Navy, no attack aircraft, no drones...no nukes.  They have missiles - surface to air, air to air, air to surface and surface to surface but numbers are not disclosed.  Their main strategy is naturally asymmetric and designed around area denial - aka holding off an invasion.  Not knowing the number or capability of missile inventory they likely need more, the Reds have them outnumbered in most everything that can be thrown at them.  What would make what is coming after them less potent is hitting them at their bases before they sortie...which would require powerful conventionally armed ballistic missiles, now that would get their attention in a big way.

So to me Beijing Biden is playing smoke and mirror here, snookering American's he is serious about the threat to Taiwan while providing token support to Taiwan who remains existentially vulnerable to a ravenous totalitarian bully.

[Libertas]

Chi-Com's wasting no time...dispatching exercises near Taiwan...taunting the mentally impaired...

https://www.weaselzippers.us/473191-china-to-taiwan-america-will-abandon-you/

Not an unreasonable prediction...only question is how many American's die before fleeing in force?

[Libertas]

Time to document the next sh!tshow brewing...

https://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,18590.new.html#new