Communist China Telegraphs Its Punches
Originally published by NY Sun.
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Communist China’s military exercise around Taiwan is not a reaction to anything America or Japan did. The Americans have been selling arms to Taiwan for years and American advisers have been in Taiwan for at least a decade or more. Beijing knows good and well that Japan would be forced to act if China attacks Taiwan.
With Beijing, everything is pretextual.
Rather the Chinese are on a timeline toward a clear objective, seizing Taiwan either by force or coercion. They’ve built up a military that has the capabilities needed to attack Taiwan, and Chinese leadership reasonably thinks they might take the place.
They have developed and practiced all the necessary components for an all-out assault and at this point they are just rehearsing, as American Indo-Pacific Command’s top officer, Admiral Samuel Paparo, stated earlier in 2025.
This exercise, however, talks specifically about fighting “interventionist” forces and beyond the first island chain. That’s a clear message to the United States.
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