Thursday, July 20, 2023

China Prepares for War

With all the instability in the world it would seem that we are on the edge of something big.  America is so preoccupied with whether or not men can be women or can chestfeed babies that we have to be close to the collapse of an empire.  I saw something on Joe Rogan and his guest was giving examples of how previous empires had a huge preoccupation with gender issues right before they collapsed.  It wouldn't surprise me.

If you were China and if you had plans on climbing to the top and being King of the World for a while, you might surmise that NOW would be the time to act.  They have to know that lots of USA's bullets, tanks and bombs have been sent to Ukraine.

I wonder if all the feminists would drop their crap if we started sending women to the front lines of war and drafted them in equal numbers as we did men?

I watched a chilling presentation by the Hudson Institute recently by someone who is much smarter than Joe Biden or anyone in his administration.

His name is Kyle Bass, the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Center Advisory Board. He's a very serious man - and I suspect a very rich man. 

His topic: "China Prepares for War: A Timeline - Xi's Inexorable March Toward War."

He started with three slides, which incorporated three observations of Chinese President Xi Jinping:

- He's fond of discussing, and he's not shy about it, "The rejuvenation of the great Chinese race," which he likens it to his life's singular goal.

- In October 2022, he mentioned his "laser-like focus on reacquiring the Taiwanese separatists." He says that if he cannot achieve it, his entire set of lifetime achievements would amount to failure.

- In his last six major speeches, Xi has stressed the need to prepare for war and for the 90 million members of the Communist Party of China to get ready for the "Great Struggle."

OK, now that you know what he wants more than anything else, here's where Xi stands on the way to achieving his goal.

As part of his aggression toward Taiwan, he completed Operation Joint Fire-Strike in August 2022. He completed Operation Joint Sword this year. And he has not named the last operation - an amphibious assault on a to-be-announced basis. Don't expect his next move to be telegraphed as Vladimir Putin's all-out-invasion was. 

Notably, Xi says, Operation Joint Sword stressed speed and agility but not control of data. Prior to Joint Sword, the Chinese severed the undersea fiber-optic cables between Taiwan and Matsu Island. They understand the need for data flows between Taiwan and the rest of the world must be maintained scrupulously.


Let's remember that China's population has peaked and they have to know that they are going to be in real trouble in the next 20 years.  If you were a leader of the Communist Party there you may very well conclude that "it's now or never."


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