The Taiwan count down has begun!

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Why do you keep making stuff up?

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At present our military is gutted and we have no means of producing the equipment we so desperately need!

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/MmeTYW3dqp8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/MmeTYW3dqp8</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmeTYW3dqp8

For those not willing to patronize the Leftist censorship platform known as YouTube:  https://rumble.com/v2szir4-you-must-have-three-children.html

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China knows its current demographic trend will result in too few military-age people available for service for 18 years after 2026! 

They want to shorten that dearth of service age people by 3 years!

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Key Takeaways [LIST=1]

• The narrative that the 2024 presidential election is a choice between peace and war is likely to reemerge as the dominant narrative in the mid to long term.
• The CCP used a recent report about US evacuation plans for Taiwan to advance information operations that aim to degrade United States-Taiwan security cooperation.
• China questioned the United States’ motives for re-joining the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a likely attempt to establish conditions to discredit US global leadership.
• CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s call for “large domestic [economic] circulation” that can withstand “extreme circumstances” is likely a long-term push to create a sanction resistant Chinese economy while engaging with, but not becoming reliant upon, the international economic environment.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-weekly-update-june-16-2023

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Key Takeaways

• The PLA has normalized drone flights around Taiwan within Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) and may begin conducting such flights with regular manned aircraft during the next 12-24 months.
  
• Ongoing media coverage about TPP presidential candidate Ko Wen-je’s support for resuming cross-strait talks involving the controversial Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) may improve the standing of the DPP or KMT in the 2024 presidential election.
  
• The PRC framed the Wagner Group rebellion as a minor challenge that Russia overcame.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-weekly-update-june-30-2023

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Taiwan scrambled aircraft and dispatched ships late Tuesday to monitor the passage of two Russian warships off its eastern coast, according to the island’s Ministry of National Defense.

Two Russian frigates traveled northward along the coast toward the East China Sea around 11 p.m. Tuesday, the ministry said in a news release Tuesday. It did not specify how far offshore the ships were.

In response, Taiwan’s military used “joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance methods” and “dispatched mission aircraft, ships and shore-mounted missile systems to closely monitor” the Russian vessels, according to the release.

The ships continued on course and left Taiwan’s “response area” southeast of Suao, a city on the island’s northeastern edge that is also home to a logistics support naval base, according to the Defense Ministry.

While Taiwan reports near-daily activity from the Chinese military off its western coast in the Taiwan Strait — 49 Chinese aircraft and 20 ships have been reported in the waterway since Sunday — Russian activity is less common.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-06-28/taiwan-russia-warships-passage-china-10574003.html

Desperation and greed make bad decisions!

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Democrats the most irrational people on Earth expect the CCP to act rationally!

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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has reportedly ramped up military exercise around the island of Taiwan after the US approved a latest round of potential arms sales to the island on Thursday, with experts saying on Sunday that the PLA is fully capable of safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests.

The defense authority on the island of Taiwan said on Saturday that it detected 26 PLA aircraft and seven PLA vessels around the island of Taiwan over the past day, with 12 of the aircraft, including fighter jets, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft, crossing the so-called Taiwan Straits median line or the island's self-proclaimed southwest air defense identification zone, media on the island reported.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202307/1293556.shtml

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The United States Navy helped secure victory in two world wars and the Cold War. Today the Navy remains a formidable fighting force, but even officers within the service have questioned its readiness.

While the U.S. spent 20 years fighting land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon watched China, its greatest geopolitical rival of the 21st century, build the largest navy in the world. China has threatened to use that navy to invade Taiwan, an important American ally.

As tensions with China continue to rise, we wanted to know more about the current state of the U.S. Navy, how it's trying to deter China, and as we first reported in March, preparing for the possibility of war.

Admiral Samuel Paparo: The Navy's always on alert. One-third of the Navy is always deployed and operating at all times. The Navy's mustering right now about 300 ships, and there are about 100 ships at sea right now all around the globe.

Admiral Samuel Paparo commands the U.S. Pacific Fleet, whose 200 ships and 150,000 sailors and civilians makeup 60% of the entire U.S. Navy.  We met him in February on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz deployed near the U.S. territory of Guam, southeast of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China, or PRC.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-state-of-the-us-navy-amid-a-massive-chinese-naval-buildup/ar-AA1dlkV3

Formidable isn't superior!

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China has prepared for a long time to invade Taiwan!

They have laid a vast and deadly trap for any fleet coming to Taiwan's aid!

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/Tx2noi4WXWc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/Tx2noi4WXWc</a>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2noi4WXWc