(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Does China sense weakness in the White House? In recent days Chinese troops have been sent to Belarus for military exercises, dozens of Chinese military aircraft have been threatening Taiwan, and four Chinese military vessels were even detected off the coast of Alaska. So why has China decided to become so aggressive all of a sudden?
Right now, Joe Biden is facing endless questions about his competency, and those around him are focused on fighting for his political survival. So could foreign adversaries such as China use this window of opportunity to do things that they may not normally attempt to do?
According to authorities in Taiwan, 66 Chinese military aircraft and 7 Chinese military vessels were “operating around Taiwan” on Wednesday…
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) on Thursday said that it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft and vessels around the island, apparently en route to a Chinese military exercise in the Western Pacific.
The media outlet embedded a statement by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence on its X platform.
“66 PLA aircraft and seven PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) today,” the statement said.
When asked about this, the Chinese government responded by declaring that the operation was about protecting “its sovereignty and territorial integrity”…
When asked about the warplanes crossing the median line at a regular press briefing in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian avoided directly responding. “The determination of China to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity remains unrelenting,” he said.
The CCP insists that Taiwan is Chinese territory, and the Biden administration has been warned that “reunification” will take place at some point.
Let us hope that the Chinese do not choose to use this current window of opportunity to “reunify” with Taiwan, because the moment that they invade we will be at war with China and everything will change.
Unfortunately, it appears that the Chinese have been aggressively probing Taiwan’s maritime defenses. During the first six months of 2024, the Taiwanese Coast Guard “drove away 567 Chinese boats”…
The coast guard drove away 567 Chinese boats and seized seven illegally operating in Taiwanese waters in the first six months of this year, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said yesterday.
They mostly operated near Kinmen and Penghu counties, resulting in fines totaling NT$1.7 million (US$52,440), it said.
Three ships — two near Kinmen County and one near Penghu County — were detained in January for illegally crossing the border, while one ship each was detained near Kinmen in February and Penghu in March respectively, it said.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have been sniffing around our coastlines too.
In fact, it is being reported that four Chinese military vessels were just spotted off the coast of Alaska…
Multiple Chinese military ships were spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard in the waters off Alaska, officials said in a news release on Wednesday.
Three vessels were detected about 124 miles north of the Amchitka Pass in the Aleutian Islands, and a fourth ship was spotted about 84 miles north of the state’s Amukta Pass. The ships were seen on Saturday and Sunday.
All four ships were in international waters, the Coast Guard said, but were inside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the U.S. shoreline.
The reason that this incident is noteworthy is because it is very unusual.
Chinese military vessels don’t normally operate so far north.
Most people don’t realize this, but China now has the largest navy on the entire planet. I don’t know how we allowed that to happen, but we did.
And it turns out that our own military industry has become extremely dependent on the Chinese. For example, it is being reported that Chinese semiconductors are in approximately “40% of all U.S. Department of Defense weapons systems and infrastructure”…
A large number of Chinese semiconductors are used in critical military platforms, accounting for around 40% of all U.S. Department of Defense weapons systems and infrastructure, and are further linked to military supply chains such as Patriot air-defense missiles and B-2 bombers.
For example, a Lockheed Martin missile factory situated in Alabama produces Javelin anti-tank weapons which use more than 200 semiconductors in each weapon. This equates to thousands of Chinese-made semiconductors within U.S. weaponry.
“U.S. companies at the bottom of the supply chain pyramid often source these parts from China in open market transactions. As a result, many essential components in sensitive U.S. military systems now come from China. Countless major weapons platforms are vulnerable,” the report states.
Our leaders aren’t exactly the sharpest tools in the shed, but this is ridiculous.
Didn’t anyone consider the fact that one day we might actually end up in a war with China?
Before I end this article, I wanted to give a quick update on the conflict in Ukraine.
According to the BBC, at the big NATO conference this week the Ukrainians were told that they now have an “irreversible path” to membership in the alliance…
Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid.
While a formal timeline for it to join the military alliance was not agreed at a summit in Washington DC, the military alliance’s 32 members said they had “unwavering” support for Ukraine’s war effort.
Nato has also announced further integration with Ukraine’s military and members have committed €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.
Needless to say, this is not going to sit well with the Russians at all.
One of the reasons this war started was because Russia was determined to keep Ukraine out of NATO.
Now F-16 fighter jets from a number of NATO countries are starting to be delivered to Ukraine, and the Russians have already warned that those fighter jets will be considered a nuclear threat…
This summer, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium will begin sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and Denmark and the Netherlands have said there will be no restrictions on the use of these planes to strike targets in Russia. F-16s are able to deliver nuclear weapons, and Russia has said the planes will be considered a nuclear threat.
We are rapidly approaching a point of no return.
I have been studying the Russians for a long time, and once they come to the conclusion that nuclear war is inevitable they will strike first.
They know that there are no winners in a nuclear war, but they also know that whoever strikes first will have the best chance of surviving.
The Russians are highly paranoid, and we should not be backing them into a corner because that will make them extremely dangerous.
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We are about to find out what China is getting for the money they bribed Biden with. What ever it is they will have to do it before Trump takes office.
You dirived that statment from the ziegeiist of (the still sane) citizens of America. To the Chi-Com mind, a better opportunity to destroy the U S will never exist. This White House is the very definition total dereliction of duty. How meny millions of male Chinese (militart age) males are roaming around our Nation because of bidens’ stupiddity?
We cannot even afford to go to war with Cuba let alone China with the condition our country has been degraded into these past three-plus years.
China is aggressive because we a dementia patient running our country.
“Does China sense weakness in the White House?” Is that a serious question?
It’s not about China sensing weakness. The people we’ve allowed control of the US constantly tell our allies and anyone that will listen that China is our enemy and that war with China is inevitable. They move troops onto islands just off China’s coast and into Taiwan. If someone constantly said that the US was the enemy all over the world and kept encroaching on our borders for decades like the US has been doing with Russia and China, how would the US react. If we want to avoid a world War on multiple fronts that we cannot possibly win (again, because of actions we have taken in manufacturing, outsourcing, corrupting our military and society and a total diplomatic failure on all fronts), we need to look at our leaders and address their provocative, corrupt, insane, self-destructive behavior. However, Americans are not what we were, so get ready for a war we will lose in an ugly way that is totally our fault for accepting these lunatics as leaders.
China in the late 1980’s was still working the fields. Then came Walmart and big factories that turned them into an industrial power. The Chinese were hungry and willing to work. They rode their bicycles away from Walmart with color TV’s in basket. With such a huge labor force, the economy grew at a staggering pace and a guy named Bill Clinton cam along in the early 1990’s and gave the Chinese some top secret U.S. military missile intelligence to them. Shipping was a given because they had to get all of those Walmart trinkets to the United States and they even bought and control a California seaport on American soil. With so much commerce and money flowing back and forth, it was only a matter of time before the speaker of the house married the daughter of a Chinese shipping guru and made 25 million dollars for starters and then made his Chinese wife the head of the DOT so the Chinese could control even more of the U.S. infrastructure and influence even more politicians.
Jay, the evil bastard McConnell was never Speaker of the House. He was the Majority leader and Minority leader of the Senate.
Saber rattling during the US elections, political posturing. The US has no need to fear from the Chinese military at present for two reasons. First is the Chinese have not been bloodied, it takes severe hardship to toughen a military up. The Japanese prior to WW1 sent their men to Manchuria. Germany and the opposition had veterans of WW1 but the Japanese were untested. Obviously they rose to the occasion over time. Secondly the US is a Country of warriors, some still remain though most have been replaced with DEI and gender warriors so it does look good for the US in the future.
I firmly believe China is playing long ball and they intend to get Taiwan back in the fold peacefully through elections and subterfuge.
“Why Has the Chinese Military Suddenly Become So Aggressive?”, “Does China sense weakness in the White House?” It is estimated that anywhere from 37,000 to 100,000+ illegal Chinese have crossed the Southern Border since 2021, not to mention there are illegal Chinese coming across the Northern Border too. That is anywhere between 3 and 9 divisions worth of soldiers. The vast majority Crossing the Border are military aged males in good shape, almost like they are sending soldiers, spies and saboteurs into America intentionally. If you were any enemy and wanted to damage a country or stop it from stopping you invading other countries, like Taiwan, what would you do differently? The State of the U.S. Military is in a freefall, DEI and ESG are destroying America’s war fighting capabilities. Law enforcement has been neutered and chaos is allowed to run rampant in the U.S.. China sees this, hell their guy is in the White House, whom they have bribed for years if not decades, and knows that they can push the envelope. Read Sun Tzu’s art of war and Alinsky’s rules for Radicals. They know that America is weak and they own the Biden crime family, of course they will get aggressive. Weakness breeds aggression. October is coming a China may decide to strike before the election, if that happens all of this Troops, spies and Saboteurs will be hard at work wreaking havoc inside or country.
Why Has the Chinese Military Suddenly Become So Aggressive? Are you kidding me? Take just one quick look at the history of China. Even recent history. Tiananmen Square anyone? They literally wrote the book on war and being successful at it. They have always been extremely aggressive. Always. They are just very very very smart about it. What a strange question for the title of this article.