{"id":2008908,"date":"2023-08-23T03:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-chinas-decline-and-bidens-incompetence-could-push-xi-jinping-to-war\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:48:43","slug":"why-chinas-decline-and-bidens-incompetence-could-push-xi-jinping-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-chinas-decline-and-bidens-incompetence-could-push-xi-jinping-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s decline and Biden&#8217;s incompetence may drive Xi Jinping towards war."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-chinas-decline-and-bidens-incompetence-could-push-xi-jinping-to-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">China&#8217;s Economy in Trouble<\/h2>\n<p>China\u2019s economy is facing serious challenges. The country&#8217;s experiment with state-directed capitalism is coming to an end under the control of paramount leader Xi\u2064 Jinping. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/luxury-sneakers-may-be-a-step-too-far-for-cash-strapped-gen-z\/\" title=\"Luxury sneakers may be a step too far for cash-strapped Gen Z\">youth unemployment rate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-surprises-with-modest-rate-cut-amid-growing-yuan-risks\/\" title=\"China surprises with modest rate cut amid growing yuan risks\">local government debt problems<\/a> are growing, while the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2021-cant-be-any-worse-can-it\/\" title=\"2021 Can't Be Any Worse, Can It?!\">real estate market<\/a> is in disarray. China is also experiencing deflation and has even cut the salaries\u2064 of mid-level government officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a result, the longstanding agreement between the CCP and the Chinese \u200bpeople \u200b\u2014 economic growth in exchange for political repression \u2014 is null\u200c and void.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This presents Xi with \u2063a conundrum. He can relax controls to improve the \u200deconomy, but that\u2062 would mean admitting error and losing face. Worse, if the economy doesn\u2019t improve, Xi\u2019s reign will\u200c be seen as a \u2064failure.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a way\u200b out, one common to \u2064dictators: start a war to stoke nationalist fervor.<\/p>\n<p>This option is often overlooked by Western observers, who feel comfortable in their \u200dmirror-imaging fallacies. Under this bias, they assume that foreign regimes\u2064 act \u2062with the same rationale as the nations \u2063where they have lived, studied, vacationed, or worked.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lessons from History<\/h3>\n<p>In 1982, when a worldwide recession \u200bwas\u200c hitting developing nations \u200dharder \u2064than the U.S., the Argentinian junta was running low on \u2063popularity. Then, on April 2, Argentina\u2019s\u2063 military leaders made the rash decision \u2062to invade Islas las Malvinas \u2014 known in most of the \u2064world as\u200c the Falkland Islands, a \u2063British \u2064territory. For weeks, the \u2063people celebrated\u200d the junta amid a swelling of nationalist pride. But \u200cin just over two months, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put together\u2063 a British task\u2063 force and retook the islands. Within weeks, the Argentinian junta was ejected from power.<\/p>\n<p>So, what might the run-up to \u2064conflict in \u2064the Pacific\u200b and first few\u200c weeks afterward look like?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Testing Western Resolve<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Lucci, founder and \u2063president of\u2063 the State Armor Project, has thought about how China would prepare\u2062 to invade Taiwan, the \u200cself-governed democracy of 24 million people only 90 miles off\u200c the coast\u200c of \u2064China. Lucci believes China would want assurances that the U.S. would not come to Taiwan\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 Taiwan Relations Act, signed \u200binto law \u200bby President Jimmy Carter in 1979, considers \u200b\u201c\u2026any effort to determine the future\u200c of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by\u200b boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security \u200bof the\u200c Western Pacific\u200d area and of\u200b grave \u2063concern to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Escalating to \u200dWar<\/h2>\n<p>Lucci believes China is already\u2064 testing American\u2064 resolve. The \u200bspy\u2064 balloon incident is \u200cone clear \u2064example. President Joe Biden did \u200bnothing. To that we could\u200b add more\u200d than 100,000 deaths per year from fentanyl largely cooked in Mexico from Chinese ingredients, the recent water\u200c cannoning of Philippine resupply vessels, and the use of military-grade lasers and aggressive ship and \u200cjet \u2063maneuvers around \u2063U.S. Navy ships as well as Navy and Air Force aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>China has other means to test \u200cAmerica\u2019s willingness to fight. It is known that China has inserted kill switches in the large high-voltage transformers it has sold to \u200dthe U.S. This led then-President Donald Trump to\u200c sign an executive order in 2020 banning the importation of these large\u200b transformers, which carry 70 percent of \u200cAmerica\u2019s electricity, from \u201cforeign adversaries.\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powertransformernews.com\/2021\/04\/23\/us-department-of-energy-reverses-trump-ban-on-chinese-electrical-equipment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promptly\u2062 lifted\u200b the ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What if China selectively blacked out a major U.S. city or region? Some U.S. metropolitan\u2062 areas, already reeling under\u2064 defunded police and increasing crime,\u2063 might quickly descend into looting and violence.<\/p>\n<p>The prudent response would be to send a contingent of Marines to Taiwan while reinforcing the U.S. Navy\u2019s Seventh Fleet in Yokosuka, Japan. But Biden would likely remain passive. As we have seen in Hawaii\u200c in the \u200dwake of the wind-driven fires, \u200dthe disaster response would be slow and bungled. Plus, Taiwan,\u200c on the verge of a presidential election on Jan. 13, 2024, might turn down an offer from the \u2064U.S., fearing it would provoke China.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, China might try to seize <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.google.com\/web\/@22.06535855,121.42399981,5.28743134a,203423.11888218d,35y,0h,0t,0r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lesser Orchid \u200bIsland<\/a>, a small, uninhabited island measuring about half a mile on its sides, just three miles south of Orchid Island, itself about 20 miles east of the southern tip of Taiwan. Such an action likely wouldn\u2019t involve\u2062 shooting\u200c with Taiwanese forces and could give China an indication of\u200c the willingness of the U.S., Japan, the \u200dPhilippines, and Taiwan to respond.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">China\u2019s Invasion of Taiwan<\/h2>\n<p>Sensing \u2063weakness and irresolution from\u2064 Biden, who was responsible for the embarrassing debacle in Kabul and the indecision in the first few weeks of Russia\u2019s \u2064invasion of Ukraine, China might decide to invade Taiwan. \u2062If so, the invasion could feature \u200da lot more violence than that which Russia brought upon Ukraine. Taiwan is a far smaller \u2063target, and, while separated by 90 miles of ocean, China has built thousands \u200dof guided missiles for the purpose\u2064 of \u2062attacking Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>China has been practicing commandeering its vast civilian fleet in\u2063 support of amphibious operations. In mid-August, two civilian roll-on\/roll-off ships, particularly useful in military operations, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tshugart3\/status\/1691805305582035376?s=46&#038;t=xYUskRCoJHTeRPBxOaDBWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were seen steaming south<\/a>, far from their usual routes \u2064in the Yellow\u200d Sea, to join another two such vessels at a navy base in Hainan Island.<\/p>\n<p>But PRC planners may assess that the\u200c U.S.,\u200c Japan, and other nations might not easily be cowed \u2014 or at least might eventually swing into action to defeat an invasion of Taiwan. In \u200bthis case, the PRC would \u2062likely \u2064preempt U.S. and Japanese military assets in the region that could contribute to\u2063 a defense of Taiwan. China might attack Okinawa, Guam, other bases, and ships at sea with little to no warning.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Attacks on America and Deadly Trade\u200c Disruptions<\/h2>\n<p>Coincident with \u200bsuch an attack, China may hit the American homeland by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-chinas-decline-and-bidens-incompetence-could-push-xi-jinping-to-war\/\" title=\"China's decline and Biden's incompetence may drive Xi Jinping towards war.\">severing oceanic internet cables<\/a>, attacking the electric \u2063grid, damaging key infrastructure, such as pipelines \u2062and municipal water systems, and even\u200d carrying out direct sabotage\u200c and assassination operations.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the latter, since\u200b the beginning of the year, sources \u2062at the border with Mexico have described an abrupt\u200b shift in the nature of Chinese nationals illegally crossing into America. \u2063In\u200b the \u2064past, \u2064family units crossed. They would eagerly tell\u200c Border Patrol agents their stories \u2014\u2063 back when\u200d the Border Patrol had \u2062the \u200dincreasingly rare luxury of interviewing would-be migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Today most illegal aliens are military-aged\u200c and very tightlipped, simply wanting\u2064 to be released to go\u2062 on their way to the U.S. interior. These \u2063young Chinese nationals might simply be fleeing the increasingly bad economy in the\u2062 PRC, or they might be part of a vanguard of saboteurs, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, with America\u2019s overwhelming dependence on China for \u200dkey medicines, such as antibiotics, and the world supply chain\u2019s\u2062 reliance \u200con China for basic drug ingredients, a disruption in trade would threaten to kill more \u200bpeople than there\u200b are military members in the line \u200cof fire.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s worsening economy, combined with the \u2062understanding that the sluggish and inept Biden administration\u200d won\u2019t likely remain in office for long, \u2062increases the likelihood of Xi playing the jingoistic card of war and invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s economy is facing a grave crisis as Xi Jinping&#8217;s shift towards Communist Party control marks the end of state-directed capitalism. 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