{"id":2125389,"date":"2023-12-14T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/risk-of-war-with-china-is-real-and-rising\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:24:57","slug":"risk-of-war-with-china-is-real-and-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/risk-of-war-with-china-is-real-and-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing risk of war with China"},"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\">12<\/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%2Frisk-of-war-with-china-is-real-and-rising%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=2125389&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--><h2>China&#8217;s Broken Promises and the Growing Risk of War with the US<\/h2>\n<p>After President Joe Biden\u2062 met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco last month, the White House touted three modest accomplishments.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Xi had agreed \u2063to restore military-to-military communications that\u200b had been cut off after then-House Speaker\u200b Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) high-profile August 2022 visit to Taiwan. Xi \u200balso\u2064 pledged to \u200climit \u200bthe export of \u2064precursors used to make the deadly drug \u2062fentanyl\u200d and threw in a promise of some new pandas for\u200c the National\u2062 Zoo in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, none of the promises have been fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting \u2064of \u200dthe presidents, at \u2063a time of escalating tensions between the two countries, \u200chad\u200c a public veneer of cordiality. Biden has gushed about \u2064the \u201cgreat honor\u201d of \u200chosting Xi in the United States. \u2063And Xi has \u200dwaxed on about mutual respect and peaceful \u2064coexistence.<\/p>\n<p>But readouts from both the U.S. and China painted a different picture, of Biden appealing to \u2063Xi\u200c not \u200cto change the status of Taiwan as a\u2064 self-governing democracy by force and Xi indicating that while his preference was for peace, he also sent clear signals he was not going to settle for the status quo much longer.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. side should take real actions to \u200dhonor its commitment of not supporting \u2018Taiwan independence,\u2019 stop arming Taiwan, and support China\u2019s peaceful reunification,\u201d the Chinese foreign ministry said, describing the \u2063discussions between Xi and Biden. \u201cChina will realize reunification, and this is unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPresident Xi\u2063 &#8230; underscored that [Taiwan] was the biggest,\u2062 most potentially dangerous issue in U.S.-China relations,\u201d a senior U.S. \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cancels-major-foreign-policy-speech-due-to-two-inches-of-snow\/\" title=\"Biden Cancels \u2018Major\u2019 Foreign-Policy Speech Due to Two Inches of Snow\">official told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Biden responded\u200d that the U.S. was determined to maintain peace and stability in the region, Xi\u2019s reply was along the lines of \u201cpeace is all well and good, but\u2064 at\u2062 some point, we \u200cneed to move\u2063 toward \u2063resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that went almost unreported amidst Biden \u200band\u2064 Xi\u2019s summit is that Xi tripled down on his threats\u2062 to Taiwan,\u201d Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chairman of the bipartisan\u200c House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said the following weekend on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation. \u201cThis should remind us \u200cthat no\u200b amount of\u200c relentless diplomacy will make \u200ca difference if we\u200d don\u2019t fix the fundamental problem, which is that the balance of hard power across the strait and throughout the Indo-Pacific region is eroding, and with it, the\u200c risk of war is increasing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher has been \u200csounding the \u200dalarm for more \u2062than a\u200d year that the U.S. is entering a \u201cwindow of maximum danger\u201d of all-out war \u2062with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I use that term,\u2064 I get a lot of blowback, and people claim \u200bI\u2019m hyping the threat,\u201d\u200b Gallagher said in \u2063an interview last month on the \u200bHoover Institution podcast Uncommon Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we come to blows\u200d with \u2063China over\u200d Taiwan, if they try\u200b to take Taiwan\u2064 by force, and I think the odds of that \u2064are\u200c increasing, this could \u200dquickly spiral into a conflict that\u2019s so severe, it has the potential to make the current wars in Ukraine and\u200d in the Middle East, and even previous World Wars, look tame in comparison. It could even escalate to the level of a nuclear exchange, which would\u2064 be devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xi has\u200d given his military, the People\u2019s Liberation Army, a goal of modernizing to the point it could take Taiwan by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. Defense \u2064Secretary Lloyd Austin said there\u2019s no sign Xi\u200d is \u200bin a rush to go to war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u200c don\u2019t\u2063 think that the \u2063conflict with China is inevitable or imminent,\u201d Austin\u2064 said during a trip\u2062 to the Indo-Pacific region last month. \u201cThat\u2019s \u2062something that nobody wants to see happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>China&#8217;s Rapidly Growing Military Power<\/h3>\n<p>The person whose job it is to figure out what China\u2019s intentions are \u200bis Adm. John Aquilino, head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, headquartered in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s \u200ccaught his attention is China\u2019s rapidly growing military power,\u200c which he calls \u201cthe largest military buildup\u2063 in history since World\u2062 War II,\u2062 at the greatest\u200d speed both in the conventional\u2064 lane and the strategic \u2064nuclear lane across all domains, maritime, air, land, \u200cspace, cyberspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just China\u2019s dramatically increased capabilities but\u200b also its newfound willingness to use \u200bmilitary force to intimidate\u2062 and\u2064 dominate its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best example I\u200c would lay down \u200dis what\u2019s happening right now with our Philippine counterparts in the vicinity of Second Thomas Shoal,\u201d Aquilino said at a recent appearance at the Reagan National Defense Forum \u2064in Simi Valley, California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are trying to resupply \u200ctheir forces on their ship Sierra Madre. They are being \u200dblocked,\u2063 they are being water cannoned,\u2062 they are being lazed, and they\u2019re\u2064 being rammed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>China says\u2063 the island\u2062 is its sovereign territory, a claim that was\u200b rejected by an international tribunal in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese have no claim to \u200bthat space,\u2062 yet they \u2062are enforcing an illegal\u200d claim as a part of the East and South China Sea that\u2019s concerning,\u201d Aquilino said.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Taiwan, the U.S. has a mutual defense \u2063treaty with the Philippines,\u200d and in\u2062 a recent statement,\u200d the Pentagon said its commitment to its treaty obligations remains \u201cironclad,\u201d making the former U.S. territory another possible flashpoint.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no shortage of dire predictions \u200dof how a war with \u2062China might go, especially now that the war in Ukraine has revealed the inability \u200bof the U.S. defense base to supply and resupply the millions of rounds of munitions that are required by \u2064modern \u200dwarfare, the asymmetric advantage of cheap\u200d drone warfare, and exposed the limited appetites \u2063of\u2064 American politicians and average citizens for expensive and protracted foreign wars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is a heartbeat away from a world war that it\u2062 could lose,\u201d \u2064A. Wess Mitchell, a former assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, wrote in Foreign Policy last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready, Beijing is testing Washington in East Asia, knowing full well that the United States would struggle to deal with a third\u2063 geopolitical crisis. If war does come, the United\u2062 States would find some very important factors suddenly working \u200cagainst it,\u201d Mitchell writes. \u201cUnlike the United States, which needs to be strong in all three of these places, each of\u2064 its adversaries \u2014 China, Russia, and Iran \u2014\u200b only has to be strong in its own home region to achieve its objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an opinion piece in the New York Post, Harry Kazianis, a China expert at the Center for the National\u200c Interest, argues a Pearl Harbor-style sneak attack could\u2063 end America\u2019s days as a superpower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf\u200b the moment\u2064 came and Xi Jinping\u2019s Chinese \u2063Communist Party gave the order, Beijing could\u2063 launch a massive surprise strike that could cripple \u200cthe U.S. military \u2064in any scenario over Taiwan, the South China Sea and beyond,\u201d \u2064Kazianis writes.\u200d \u201cChina has enough advanced missiles to not only destroy nearly every U.S. military base in\u200b Asia quickly but also target and attack most U.S. Navy warships in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a visit to Taiwan earlier this year, Gallagher \u200bargued the \u2064best chance to deter China is to turn Taiwan\u2062 into\u2064 a \u201cporcupine\u201d that would be\u200d difficult and costly to occupy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI return from my trip to Taiwan \u200ceven more convinced that the time to arm Taiwan to the teeth was yesterday,\u201d Gallagher said\u2063 in February.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan needs\u200b a lot more weaponry, in particular\u2063 Harpoon\u2064 anti-ship missiles, to counter China\u2019s\u2062 superior naval power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have Harpoon missiles that\u200d were purchased in 2015, approved by Congress, and are still not \u200bgoing to be delivered until\u200c 2027,\u2063 2029, because our foreign \u2062military sales process is totally broken here,\u201d Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u2064Pentagon\u2019s annual report on Chinese military power, analysis suggests China might counter \u2064a \u2064porcupine strategy with an air and naval blockade to \u200bcut off\u2064 Taiwan\u2019s vital imports in an effort to \u200bforce Taiwan\u2019s capitulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarge-scale missile strikes and possible seizures of Taiwan\u2019s offshore islands would \u200daccompany a Joint Blockade \u2063Campaign in an \u2062attempt to compel Taiwan\u2019s surrender, while at the same\u2062 time, posturing \u200cair and naval forces to conduct weeks or months of blockade operations if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher draws lessons from the\u2064 Taiwan Strait crises in the 1950s, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was \u2063president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Eisenhower have to do in order to deter the CCP? He went to Congress to\u2062 get advanced authorization for the use\u2063 of military force. Some would say he actually threatened  <\/p>\n<h2> How has China&#8217;s investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-outlines-major-shift-hed-make-in-u-s-military-what-he-looks-for-in-vp-ag-candidates\/\" title=\"DeSantis's Military Shift &#038; VP\/AG Preferences\">cyber warfare capabilities<\/a>\u200c posed a \u200dsignificant threat to\u200b U.S. national \u2064security?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Rica&#8217;s \u200breign as the world&#8217;s dominant power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a matter of if a conflict\u200d between the United States and China could occur, \u200bbut when,\u201d Kazianis writes. \u201cYet, what might \u200dthis conflict \u200dlook like \u2014 and how might a surprise\u2063 Chinese attack actually work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kazianis describes a scenario \u200dwhere China launches a\u2063 surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet and air bases, disabling American forces in the region and quickly gaining control over Taiwan. He argues \u200dthat the \u2064U.S. \u2062would struggle to effectively respond due to its limited military capabilities and the vulnerability \u200dof its supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>These concerns are not unfounded. The U.S. military has long been \u200bwarned about the erosion of its \u200btechnological advantage \u200dand the growing capabilities of China&#8217;s\u200d military. In \u2062a 2018 report, the Pentagon \u200bhighlighted China&#8217;s efforts to \u2062develop advanced weaponry, including hypersonic missiles and anti-satellite systems, that could challenge U.S. military superiority.<\/p>\n<p>China \u200chas also been investing heavily in\u200d cyber warfare capabilities, posing a significant threat to U.S. national security. In recent years, Chinese hackers have\u2064 targeted U.S.\u200b government \u200bagencies,\u200d defense\u2063 contractors,\u200d and critical infrastructure, stealing sensitive information and conducting espionage operations.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u2064China&#8217;s assertive\u200d actions in \u200cthe South\u200c China Sea and its territorial disputes \u200cwith \u200bneighboring countries have raised tensions in the region.\u2063 The U.S. has been conducting freedom \u200bof navigation operations in the\u200d area to challenge China&#8217;s excessive territorial claims and assert its commitment \u200cto a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-mocks-and-attacks-the-united-states-on-u-s-soil-biden-admin-struggles-to-respond\/\" title=\"China Mocks And Attacks The United States On U.S. Soil; Biden Admin Struggles To Respond\">rules-based international order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, as China continues to strengthen its military\u2062 and assert\u2062 its dominance in the region, \u200bthe risk of a direct confrontation between \u2064the U.S.\u2062 and China is\u2064 growing. \u2064The Biden administration has emphasized the need for a strong\u2062 and coordinated response to China&#8217;s challenges, but it remains to be seen whether diplomatic efforts\u200c and military deterrence will be enough to prevent a conflict.<\/p>\n<p>It is imperative that the \u200dU.S. and \u200cits \u2063allies take China&#8217;s growing military capabilities and aggressive actions seriously. Efforts must be made to strengthen alliances, enhance\u2063 military \u200breadiness, and invest in advanced technologies to maintain a credible deterrent \u200cagainst Chinese aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the U.S. must address its own vulnerabilities, such as its overreliance on fragile supply\u200d chains and its outdated defense infrastructure. Investments in domestic \u2063manufacturing and \u200binfrastructure, as\u2062 well as the development of resilient supply chains, are essential to ensure \u200cthe U.S. can effectively respond to any future conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the broken promises and escalating tensions between the U.S.\u200d and China highlight the urgent need for a comprehensive strategy to address \u200dthe growing risk of war. This strategy must \u2064include diplomatic engagement, military deterrence, \u200band investments in \u2064national security to protect American interests\u200c and\u2064 maintain peace and stability\u200d in\u2062 the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After their meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping achieved three notable outcomes. These included the restoration of military-to-military communications, which had been severed following Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan in August 2022. 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