Record number of nuclear bombers invade Taiwan airspace
China Tuesday deployed a record number of nuclear-capable bombers to Taiwanese airspace, reports the Independent:
The Taiwanese defence ministry on Tuesday said 29 aircraft were detected around the island, with at least 21 entering the nation’s southwest air defence identification zone (ADIZ) over the last 24 hours…
Planned invasion
Communist China is both practicing for an all out invasion of the free nation of Taiwan, endangering the lives of its 23 million citizens, and delaying Taiwan’s response time. As Taiwan acclimates to flyovers without an actual attack, the island nation becomes less likely to fire at Chinese bombers even as they enter deeper into their airspace with more planes.
Taiwanese foreign minister Joseph Wu suggested in an interview with The Guardian that China is preparing to find another “pretext for practising their future attack” on the island following a record number of military aggressions in 2022.
Isolation
Taiwanese citizens are Chinese whose families escaped from their original homeland of China across the Taiwan Strait to the island of Taiwan (then called Formosa) during the communist revolution and the ensuing mass murders. Ever since Taiwanese have lived in fear of that same communist terror coming to their newfound home. Their free economy allowed them to quickly build up a deterrent force that has held the communist nation at bay even though China has 60 times the population of Taiwan.
China has therefore added additional tactics to its strategy to overtake Taiwan. In addition to its military buildup, the communists have invested great efforts into damaging Taiwan’s economy and politically isolating the nation.
Apart from building military efforts around the island, Beijing has been using a “combination of pressures”, including economic coercion, cyber attacks and cognitive and legal warfare, to isolate Taiwan.
One China
A large piece of the isolation strategy is to deny Taiwan recognition as an independent nation. The government of Taiwan is a continuation of the original (pre-communist) Chinese government which was a founding member of the United Nations (UN). Taiwan represented all of China at the UN until 1971 when the UN General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and recognize Communist China, instead. China even took Taiwan's permanent seat on the UN’s Security Council.
Taiwan, recognizing that chances of an invasion increase dramatically as its political independence diminishes, has tried for years to get back into the UN. The US government has, however, opposed the wishes of the Taiwanese, as well as those on mainland China who hope to one day escape their government’s tyranny.
[The US] has not supported Taiwan’s applications for membership [to rejoin the UN], objecting to what it perceives as “an effort to change the fragile status quo …”
The US government even opposes Taiwan’s independence, instead advocating the “one China policy”.
The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position.
While US officials today claim to be interested in maintaining the “fragile status quo” between China and Taiwan, the lack of overt support for Taiwan makes it more likely that the status quo will change. Perhaps more importantly, the US did not always support the current status quo in China.
Who lost China?
When the status quo was in America’s favor, with the anti-communist Chiang Kai-shek in charge of the entire nation, the State Department demanded change. In the authoritative article “Communist China: Made in the U.S.A.” Congressman John F. Kennedy is quoted telling the House of Representatives on January 25, 1949,
The responsibility for the failure of our foreign policy in the Far East rests squarely with the White House and the Department of State. The continued insistence that aid would not be forthcoming, unless a coalition government with the Communists were formed, was a crippling blow to the national government. [Emphasis added].
US politicians didn’t just insist on the entrance of communists into the Chinese government, they followed through with threats and destroyed critically needed arms that Kai-shek ordered.
As recounted by Senator Joseph McCarthy in his book America’s Retreat From Victory, “Over the hump in India, the United States military authorities were detonating large stores of ammunition and dumping 120,000 tons of war supplies in the Bay of Bengal — much of it undelivered to China but charged to her wartime lend-lease account.” [Emphasis added].
Even after anti-communists Chinese were forced to flee to Taiwan, US officials continued aiding Communist China.
. . . our Seventh Fleet was placed in the strait between mainland China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, not to protect Taiwan from invasion, but to protect the Communists. [General Douglas] MacArthur explained: “This released the two great Red Chinese armies assigned to the coastal defense of central China and made them available for transfer elsewhere.” [Emphasis added].
With that additional betrayal of Taiwan, China was able to spread communism into the Korean peninsula. America’s first failure to win a war was assured when deep state politicians in the US also prevented MacArthur from launching proper counter-offensives against the Chinese communists by placing on him restrictions known as “rules of engagement”.
These restrictions were so detrimental that Chinese General Lin Piao later admitted in an official leaflet: “I would never have made the attack and risked my men and military reputation if I had not been assured that Washington would restrain General MacArthur from taking adequate retaliatory measures against my lines of supply and communication.”
US gov. vs. US citizenry
Ideally, leaders represent the values of their citizens, in which case the values of the citizens can be judged by the actions of the leaders. Chinese, Taiwanese and North Koreans would be mistaken, however, to assume that average Americans support their government’s assistance to the communists who have made their lives miserable or, in the case of Taiwanese, endangered.
While public school and university educated youth have driven favorability ratings for communism among millennials and generation Z to 28%, only 3% of the silent generation, who populated the US at the time the US government betrayed the Chinese and Koreans, have a favorable opinion of communism.
Only China and Korea?
Should only Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans avoid judging the American people by their leaders or should Americans, too, avoid judging Iranians, Palestinians and others for the terror unleashed by their leaders?
Join us as we continue to look at how the deep state in America and in foreign nations betrays the wishes of their populaces.
