Guest Post by The Zman
A popular topic among Sinophiles since the installation of Joe Biden as president is the possibility of war with China over the status of Taiwan. The Chinese have been obsessed with Taiwan since Mao. With the American empire in sharp decline and the Biden regime unpopular at home and abroad, now could be the perfect time for the Chinese to make their move. As John Derbyshire is fond of pointing out, “Taiwan is like two feet from China … We are eight thousand miles away.”
While there is little doubt that China could retake Taiwan whenever it likes, the cost would be extremely high. For starters, Taiwan and the US have been preparing for such a move for generations. Some of the most sophisticated early warning systems on earth are installed in Taiwan specifically keep an eye on China. There is the very strong possibility that Taiwan has underground missile systems capable of reaching targets on the mainland in the event of an attack by China.
Whether or not the US would actually go to war to defend Taiwan is debatable, but that is the official position. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia are also technically committed to the defense of Taiwan. An all-out assault on Taiwan could very well result in attacks on Chinese infrastructure along the coast. It would most certainly result in massive economic retaliation. The Chinese regime would be forced to explain to her people why they are suddenly poor again.
Of course, the Chinese could counter with attacks on Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia. Her navy is the largest in the world now, even if it lacks the forward capability of the American empire. It could deliver attacks on her neighbors, including Hawaii. In an all-out war, she could attack the west coast of the United States with submarine based missiles. The point is, China is not Iraq, some pipsqueak the US military can kick around without consequences.
That reality, however, is why such a full-blown confrontation is unlikely. Despite what many believe, China is hooked on the dollar like the rest of the world. She cannot afford war with the US at this time. The reason the Chinese flooded the American election system with cash in 2020 is the Trump administration was causing real problems for the Chinese with their trade policies. No one can be sure if the Covid plague China unleashed was an accident, but you cannot rule it out.
The point being is that an economic war with the American empire would be catastrophic for the Chinese economy. The usual suspects love crowing about the Chinese economy, but her per capita GDP is $10,839. That is down there with Costa Rica and Bulgaria. China has a lot of poor people. The rich people she has are obligated to make sure those poor are provided with the basics. The iron rice bowl is a real thing, and the Chinese regime takes it very seriously.
There is also the fact that China is smart. She can take the long view with Taiwan as she knows in a generation the American empire will be gone. Given the physical condition of the ruling class and the mental condition of the probable successors, the American empire will be out of Asia in a decade. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia all know this and have been planning accordingly. China can just bide her time and Taiwan will come to her, hat in hand.
There is also the possibility this happens much quicker. It is clear to the world that Joe Biden is non compos mentis. Whoever is calling the shots is not bothering to consult the White House. This is why there is a crisis in the Ukraine. Someone from the semi-permanent ruling class encouraged Kiev to declare her intention to retake the Crimea, which has resulted in a stand-off with the Russians, who have no intention of allowing Ukraine to make any moves on the Crimea.
Then there is the dispute over Nord Stream 2, the new natural gas pipeline being built to supply western Europe. Shadowy financial interests in the American empire have been trying to stop this project for a long time. Biden administration figures have been dispatched to Europe to deliver a message from those shadowy financial interests that the Washington regime will pull out all the stops to prevent this project. This is further undermining the credibility of the Biden regime.
From the Chinese perspective, she has no reason to make any moves on Taiwan, as the puppet government in Washington is unlikely to stagger on much longer. Despite the claims by regime media, the world fully grasps the reality of the situation. The American regime is in deep crisis. The American empire is the sick man of the world right now and everyone is just waiting for the inevitable. History shows that the end comes much sooner than the patient ever expects.
The point of all this is that China has no reason to force a confrontation with the American empire over Taiwan. Through bribery, maneuvering and the general incompetence of the American ruling elite, China can quietly dictate policy to the regime in Washington. If she is patient, this reality will become clear to her neighbors in the region, and they will peacefully detach from the American empire and align with the Chinese empire. There is no need to fight the inevitable.
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Now that you’ve done the CQ, do the JQ.
The people who are actually running things are not going to launch destructive attacks on the very systems and property they wish to own and exploit. The plans (well underway, all over the world) call for keeping the global machine running as it is steered (they are ever optimistic) on to a path to a MUCH smaller set of humans running a very clean, productive machine exclusively for the benefit of the aforementioned owners.
Europeans, Chinamen, some (not to many) dot Indians, lots of Jews, few (if any) practicing Christians, very few women, almost no indigenous/hispanic types and (as far as I can tell) zero negroes. These are smart, dedicated sociopaths. No way are they going to STOP important parts of a system that is worth a lot more when it is running. Syrians? Yemenis? Nigerians? Minneapolitans? Detroiter’s? Guatemalans? Nobody gives a shit about them, or feels any need to keep them around, or to go to the trouble of killing them when it looks like they can be easily induced to kill themselves.
Game, set, match
The Chicoms are very strategic in their thinking. They have 5, 10, 25 and 50 years plans that are carried out by party loyalists while the USSA has a change of government, plans and priorities every 2 or 4 years.
The chicommies aren’t looking at Taiwan, they know they can take it at will. They’re looking at the natural resources rich “stan” countries in the eastern end of the former Soviet Union. They have biden, and many others in our government, on their payroll. Pedo joe and NATO are pushing Ukraine to mess with Putin. Once they get a war going in the west, china is free to attack and land grab in the east.
As the author pointed out, attacking Taiwan would be very expensive. Most of China’s ports are within missile range and will be hit hardest in the first strike. Once the USSA is sidelined, there will be no big protector of Taiwan (or other nation states in the Pacific) and China will once again become an empire.
Japan has been their historical enemy, but they have let their population shrink to the point that it would take a generation or two for them to become much of an adversary.
I do like you idea of getting Putin & Nato pre-occupied in Ukraine/Crimea while they pursue the mineral rich “stans”, but the muzzies hate them with a passion and will fight them for a very long time, just as they fought Russia and now US in Afghanistan.
No doubt they plan farther into the future, but eventually their plans have to bare fruit. One source says that by 2050 there will 330 million aged 65 or older. Factor in their one child policy- majority male population and their pig in the python will be an elephant. Can they continue to make plans past the horizon? The clock is ticking.
Good points, Gomer. I long thought their male only generations would create a testosterone filled population leading to acquisition of other populations. They can kill all the men, leaving the women to be used as sex slaves.
“I long thought their male only generations would create a testosterone filled population leading to acquisition of other populations.” I agree wholeheartedly, but after they conquer the world(their plan anyway), they go and have their way with the other populations, that does nothing but make another of the same problem for themselves down the road or is that a plan to support the pure peeps back home?
Life’s what happens while planners were busy making other plans. Even inscrutable, 9th degree black belt Go-player Asian planners. Man plans, God – or poetry, irony, Murphy – laughs. ~ Yiddish, apparently
Said pretty much the same things. China doesn’t need to go full scale kinetic. They salami slice, take a little here, a little there and occupy. Then claim it was theirs all along. China sits on and is leveraging their main card, worldwide. They are currently the worlds manufacturing base for most of the junk the world craves.
This manufacturing card is why China threatens any country that criticizes them. You criticize us we will stop supplying (fill in the blank). Just as China threatened to cut off PPP in the midst of the scamdemic whenever a country suggested the covid came from china. The other card they are playing is the debt cards. China holds a lot of debt worldwide and uses the debt trap as leverage.
With Taiwan, chinas grey war is eating resources at a furious pace. And, like the Zman stated Tiawan will eventually come hat in hand. China is better at stealing, bribing and is patient… no need to get physical but will if they have to.
Dear China Person In Charge Of Entering Addresses In Your Missiles;
The address of Senator Senator Mazie K Hirono is; — 300 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 9685. Not kidding, that information comes from your very own company, Google.
Just in case your Huge Dong missiles have face recognition, this is what she looks like;
She’s the one on the right. The one on the left is an insurance company Lobbyist about to buy her off. You can kill it also.
Thank You Velly Velly Much
The duck they’ll happily take for soup. The other vile creature they don’t have a recipe for and there are limits to what they’ll eat. As low as that limit is, there is still a limit. I think septic tank sludge is about at that line.
What many of you fail to understand, is the Chinese, like America are not in control of the agenda. China was allowed to prosper, it did not come to be where it is on its own. The strings in China are pulled by the same people who pull them in the US and Europe. All wars are by design, and the games being played are as convoluted to the point where they make no sense unless you understand the end goal.
China is the economic and political model that has been chosen for the world when the “great reset” is finally realized. Communism has always been the overall model, and the Chinese have succeeded where the Soviets failed.
After all, every corporation is basically based on the communist model, and the NWO is basically the take over of all the countries of the world by the corporate banks, and mega-corporations. One of the goals being, dissolution of National borders, National soverignty, and most important National interests.
I do not know how the NWO will accomplish its goals, but I do know what their goals are. You see, they are so confident in their progress, at this point they feel no need to even hide their agenda any more, as Rockefeller stated in his Bilderburger speech. As Bill Gates discloses with his depopulation agenda. And as Xi Jinping saying China must “proactively participate in, and show the way, in reform of the global governance system”.
The future can never be accurately predicted, because it is subject to human irrationality, but goals set by world leaders working in concert will set the general direction.
Whether war happens in Taiwan is probably still a uncertainty even to those pulling the strings. I can see either scenario forwarding the agenda of the NWO. I do believe however that the goal of NWO will require some sort of catastrophic event that they can point to and offer themselves as the solution to. That is their “modus operandi”.
I know they have stated that a war which threatens world destruction is one scenario, but I am certain there are others. You see, the people who pull the strings don’t always make things happen. Often they just shape the public perception of what is happening as you are clearly seeing with the COVID virus. They are masters of manipulation and propaganda. That is their real power, the power to deceive….
Warmest, least warmed over, post I’d wager.
You old timers remember Fred Reed? His stuff used to be published here on a regular basis. But, he was a Orange Man Bad guy from the get go, sooo Adios Hombre! He has a China article on Lew Rockwell today.
It’s a VERY good article.
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War with China? What Fun!
I’d Rather Be Ruled by Brain-Damaged Twelve-Year-Olds.
There is no limit to misjudgement. If the psychic curiosities in the Federal bunker start a war with China, or push Beijing into starting one, it will be blamed on a proximate cause, such as a collision of warships after which some lieutenant who joined on waivers lost it and opened fire. After all, historians have to write about something. The causes will actually be deeper and more complex.
To begin, people are cerebrally arranged to form groups–“packs” is a better word—and fight with other groups. This is dimwitted, but so are people. The urge manifests itself in wars, political parties, football, teenage gangs, and contract bridge. It is not rational. In football, armored mercenary felons having no relation to the cities they represent, battle other felons from another city, most of whose citizens would not let their daughters within a parsec of said felons—all this while the fans scream in adrenal murderousness. It is just what we do. At the national level, it is called “patriotism.”
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Rest of article here ….
A day at the coliseum…
Straddling back to the previous China Syndromeda Strain hashed here recently:
Don’t know how much of this is accurate. But if it is accurate, unlikely it’s just a disconnected parallel coincidence. Would bear, increasingly bear, the bitter strange fruit of/on the male:female ratio, female infanticide – gynocide – in China. Or, as begun in China.
I also flash on the prevalence of misogyny seen in the male f/u money chasing & leasing “alpha” milieu, the legal system inculcation & weapon pincering of misandry in the West, & how those divisions (among all the others) might be planned to trickle down increasingly more so as to come together, right now, over me, male me’s, roboticized male me’s, & their fembots.
Males & their bots can reproduce using only male dna? Say it ain’t so, Joenad.
I read enough backforth gender kvetchgoating online (& knew of a guy that hanged himself over a bad divorce – lost his kids to the wealthy ex-family) to think Stepford Wives + ability to reproduce/replicate asexually just might be a top – from the top down – wet dream out there.
Spartans & Greeks soldiering each other, prison playmates, globohomo prison planet tech’ing away females?
Until…(preying man begets female mantis…off with their heads – in the order as ordered by the crown – feed your head your head & then feed ‘em both to the wicker basket! ~ Grace Slick-Slick-Plop):