{"id":2387720,"date":"2025-01-08T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-trump-can-deter-red-china-from-ransacking-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:27:53","slug":"how-trump-can-deter-red-china-from-ransacking-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-trump-can-deter-red-china-from-ransacking-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Can Deter Red China From Ransacking Taiwan"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fhow-trump-can-deter-red-china-from-ransacking-taiwan%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=2387720&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--><p>The article discusses the increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape during Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency, notably in relation\u2063 to China&#8217;s aggressive actions\u2063 towards the U.S.\u2063 and it&#8217;s allies,\u200d particularly\u2062 Taiwan. \u200cIt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cant-remember-when-he-was-vice-president-or-when-his-son-died-doj\/\" title=\"DOJ: Biden&#039;s Memory Falters on Vice Presidency and Son&#039;s Passing\">highlights specific incidents<\/a>, such \u2063as the recent sabotage of an undersea\u200c internet cable by a Chinese vessel\u2064 and a notable rise in cyberattacks targeted at \u2062Taiwan, mainly attributed to China. The piece argues that Biden&#8217;s \u2063leadership \u2063has\u200d emboldened adversarial nations like China and that incoming President Donald Trump will need to \u2063address these challenges. The\u200d article suggests that trump can avert conflict in the Taiwan Strait by showcasing military strength and employing strategies reminiscent of Cold\u2064 War naval exercises to deter Chinese aggression,as emphasized by Brent Sadler\u200c from The Heritage Foundation. The overarching theme stresses \u2064the urgency of effective U.S. leadership to \u200bprevent the rise of Chinese socialism on a global scale.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no secret by now that Joe Biden&rsquo;s presidency has ushered in a more unstable geopolitical environment. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the lack of effective and competent U.S. leadership has given America&rsquo;s worst adversaries the confidence to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/17\/kamala-harris-foreign-policy-would-make-the-world-more-unstable-than-it-already-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">act upon<\/a> their destabilizing agendas &mdash; chief among them being Red China.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the past four years, the Middle Kingdom has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/26\/a-second-biden-term-would-be-a-gift-to-red-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">significantly upped<\/a> its aggressive behavior toward the U.S. and its allies in the Indo-Pacific. This has notably included deploying hostile <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2024\/12\/china-launches-new-military-drills-around-taiwan-following-lais-first-overseas-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">military exercises<\/a> and other &ldquo;gray zone&rdquo; tactics against Taiwan, which Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2024-12-31\/Full-text-of-President-Xi-Jinping-s-2025-New-Year-address-1zMHVlOadgY\/p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">views<\/a> as Chinese territory and has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-taiwan-elections-military-threats-ea68fa11a0b172c31162c0ff128cabf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened<\/a> to take by force, if necessary. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Taiwanese authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/taiwan\/archives\/2025\/01\/05\/2003829674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that a Chinese vessel cut an undersea internet cable connected to the island, a maneuver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/chinese-ship-suspected-of-deliberately-dragging-anchor-for-100-miles-to-cut-baltic-cables-395f65d1?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> by the communist nation in the Baltic Sea in November. According to The Wall Street Journal, the apparent act of sabotage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/asia\/chinese-vessel-cuts-taiwan-internet-cable-in-apparent-sabotage-81e0d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caused<\/a> &ldquo;only minimal disruption of service but [sent] a message about the vulnerability of the island and its internet.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred days before Taiwan&rsquo;s National Security Bureau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/cybersecurity\/chinese-cyberattacks-taiwan-government-averaged-24-mln-day-2024-report-says-2025-01-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> the island received double the number of cyberattacks from last year, averaging 2.4 million attacks per day. Most of these attacks, the bureau noted, came from China. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/29\/the-biden-harris-china-policy-has-been-a-complete-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Biden-Harris China Policy Has Been A Complete Failure<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Biden riding off disgracefully into the sunset, it&rsquo;ll be up to President-elect Donald Trump to grapple with the increasingly unstable situation in the Taiwan Strait. While <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/23\/how-trump-can-restore-integrity-and-lethality-to-americas-declining-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restoring<\/a> efficiency and lethality to America&rsquo;s military remains paramount, there a number of actions the incoming commander-in-chief can take to deter China from launching a military offensive against the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If we don&rsquo;t get this right, Chinese socialism will be on the ascendancy throughout the world,&rdquo; Brent Sadler, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-false-claims-about-border-crisis-were-not-holding-children-in-cells-separating-from-parents\/\" title=\"Biden Makes False Claims About Border Crisis: \u2018We\u2019re Not\u2019 Holding Children \u2018In Cells,\u2019 Separating From Parents\">senior research fellow<\/a> for The Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Center for National Security, told The Federalist. <\/p>\n<h2>The Blueprint to Prevent Bloodshed <\/h2>\n<p>During his first term, Trump and his administration were incredibly effective at <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/24\/bidens-global-chaos-vindicates-the-strong-foreign-policy-of-his-top-rival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">establishing<\/a> peace in geopolitical hotspots throughout the world. According to Sadler, the soon-to-be 47th president can maintain this trend in the Taiwan Strait by dissuading China from launching an invasion of Taiwan &mdash; and that means flexing America&rsquo;s military muscle. <\/p>\n<p>The Heritage senior fellow recommended the incoming administration take lessons from a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">major naval exercise orchestrated<\/a> during the Cold War by John Lehman, President Ronald Reagan&rsquo;s Navy secretary. Known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/proceedings\/2020\/march\/frozen-dragon-applying-lessons-cold-war-china-seas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ocean Venture &rsquo;81<\/a>, the demonstrations were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/08\/01\/world\/us-and-allied-navies-starting-major-test-today-military-analysis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conducted<\/a> by the U.S. and its NATO allies in the Northern Atlantic to display the alliance&rsquo;s military power and subsequently discourage Soviet aggression. Spanning 250 ships and more than 120,000 personnel, the operation is credited with successfully demonstrating NATO&rsquo;s ability to move its ships &ldquo;undetected into the Norwegian Sea and &lsquo;win&rsquo; the Atlantic, controlling NATO&rsquo;s northern flank in the North Atlantic without the Soviets&rsquo; being aware,&rdquo; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/proceedings\/2020\/march\/frozen-dragon-applying-lessons-cold-war-china-seas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Naval Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sadler, while any similar exercise undertaken by the U.S. and its regional allies in the Indo-Pacific wouldn&rsquo;t look &ldquo;exactly the same,&rdquo; the Trump administration can &ldquo;take a lot&rdquo; of lessons from Ocean Venture&rsquo;s success.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Soviets were not prepared for that, [and] it signaled that we were ready and willing to take risk and send our fleet into their so-called bastions,&rdquo; Sadler said. &ldquo;The message needs to be delivered that way [to China].&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Navy veteran also advised the administration to carry out &ldquo;fleet experiments&rdquo; similar to those the U.S. military deployed in the 1930s &ldquo;to perfect the type of war that it might have to fight.&rdquo; Attributing such exercises to America&rsquo;s success in the Pacific against Imperial Japan, Sadler argued the importance of conducting such exercises to prepare for potential future conflicts with China.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing will &ldquo;know that we&rsquo;re sharpening our knife, and that will have a deterrent effect,&rdquo; Sadler said. &ldquo;The goal is to deter China, but it&rsquo;s also to buy President Trump time to make more concerted, deliberate decisions, to take the strategic initiative away from the Chinese &mdash; not only in the military [arena], but in the economic and diplomatic arena[s].&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sadler has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/11\/how-years-of-decay-and-neglect-crippled-americas-navy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> about the need for America to substantially invest in its naval and shipbuilding capabilities to compete with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airandspaceforces.com\/pentagon-report-china-project-power-global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing<\/a> maritime powers like China, which boasts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/unpacking-chinas-naval-buildup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largest navy<\/a> in the world. Conversely, the size of the U.S. naval fleet has shrunk considerably since the end of the Cold War, putting U.S. maritime dominance and security <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/13\/is-america-losing-the-battle-for-naval-superiority-to-red-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in jeopardy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the China-Taiwan conflict and geopolitics more broadly, Will Thibeau, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute, told The Federalist the biggest challenge for the U.S. military moving forward will be managing squabbles across multiple theaters of engagement. He specially noted how the military &ldquo;is bound by the reality that they cannot fight and be everywhere at once,&rdquo; and that U.S. foreign policy &ldquo;has not caught up with that reality.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The greatest challenge is to deter multiple, potentially existential threats to the American way of life without being in a position to commit military resources in the same way for each issue,&rdquo; Thibeau said. &ldquo;The threat is the assumption that the way that the military <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/23\/how-trump-can-restore-integrity-and-lethality-to-americas-declining-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has done business<\/a> for decades is going to be the way that they can continue to do business. It&rsquo;s not, and we need to change if we&rsquo;re going to compete on the world stage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the biggest military issues facing the incoming Trump administration, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/23\/how-trump-can-restore-integrity-and-lethality-to-americas-declining-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden&#8217;s presidency has led to increased global instability, emboldening adversaries like China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2387721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Taiwan-Military.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40325,9105,3634],"class_list":["post-2387720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-red-china","tag-taiwan","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Taiwan-Military.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387724,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387720\/revisions\/2387724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}