No, I’m not talking about the indictment. I’m talking about China.
While the press and politicians are screaming at each other over that indictment, the Chinese are expanding their pre-existing spy bases in Cuba. Why we continue to allow a communist regime to operate 90 miles off our coast with spies in the United States is beyond me. Now, they’re expanding collaboration with China. It won’t be long before the Chinese have their own naval base in the area.
On top of that, our military planners have been conducting scenario after scenario after scenario dealing with a Taiwanese invasion. We lose in almost all of them. Our military-industrial complex has outsourced so much to China that we quickly run out of arms and ammo in the scenarios.
This is a problem.
There are no easy solutions either. Right now, the Chinese government has started mandating extra plantings of grains. That suggests they’re building up food stockpiles to prepare for war and international sanctions. Concurrently, the Chinese are pushing other nations to stop making the U.S. Dollar their trade currency. That undermines us economically.
The Chinese are coming for us, and Joe Biden is busy telling people at a Pride celebration at the White House that he can’t remember the last time he saw so many brave people. He was hanging out with American soldiers just two weeks ago.
The Chinese are coming for us, and the Republicans and Democrats are dithering. We need some robust, bipartisan incentives to restore military manufacturing in the United States as soon as possible. This cannot wait.
Now, One Brief Word on the Indictment
When you hear all the spin and counter-spin on television, please remember one key detail. Whether President Trump could or did declassify the documents in question is irrelevant to the prosecution. That’s a red herring being dangled by some. The issue is that the former President withheld the documents from a federal grand jury and is alleged to have not just hidden them from his own attorneys but also asked his attorneys to hide some from the FBI. That’s the core issue, regardless of the documents’ classification and whether or not the former President could declassify them just by virtue of sending them to Mar-a-Lago.
Again, not to debate the merits, but just keep that in mind when you hear both sides screaming about the nature of the classified documents, etc.
I’m sorry, but an invasion of Taiwan by China in the next 10 years has about zero possibility of happening. Taiwan is roughly 100 miles from their mainland and the Chinese navy is not capable of launching an amphibious assault the size needed to take the island which would include supplying the massive number of forces and equipment to do so. Moreover, the Chinese navy has not fought a naval battle in centuries so they have no naval combat experience. Their ships would be sitting ducks to naval and air forces from us, the Taiwanese as well as the Japanese who would join in to thwart China. Additionally, Taiwan has been preparing for an invasion since 1949 when the Nationalists fled to the island. The Chinese have also watched the debacle Russia has had in attempting to invade Ukraine which is right next door.
I also put little stock in the military exercises the say we would lose almost every time. I was on the PACOM staff in the mid-1990s and the war games at that time also said we would lose. It is a funding vehicle to get more resources by attempting to scare the bean counters into giving more funding.
China is playing the long game so as to absorb Taiwan in the same way they did Hong Kong. The only reason for China to attempt to invade Taiwan is if they had major internal problems that they had to deflect attention from. And that would be a major risk to the regime if they failed.
How many beach villas for Biden are being built in Cuba with document reading nooks ?