Kyle Bass (and others) on China (AKA the F'ing CCP thread)

[newmisty]

Where did the oak tree post go. Was replying to it and the page refreshed now I dont see it.

Symbolism of the Mighty Oak
The Oak tree is one of the most loved trees in the world, and with good reason. It’s a symbol of strength, morale, resistance and knowledge. Throughout history, the Oak has been represented in different mythologies and sometimes linked to powerful gods (in Greek mythology it was a symbol of Zeus, the God of Thunder.) The oak is considered a cosmic storehouse of wisdom embodied in its towering strength. It grows slowly, but surely at its own rate. Oak is often associated with honor, nobility, and wisdom as well thanks to its size and longetivity. Oaks are known to easily surpass 300 years of age making it a powerful life-affirming symbol. “The oak is a living legend representing all that is true, wholesome, stable, and noble.”

 

[SongSungAU]

Where did the oak tree post go. Was replying to it and the page refreshed now I dont see it.

Symbolism of the Mighty Oak
The Oak tree is one of the most loved trees in the world, and with good reason. It’s a symbol of strength, morale, resistance and knowledge. Throughout history, the Oak has been represented in different mythologies and sometimes linked to powerful gods (in Greek mythology it was a symbol of Zeus, the God of Thunder.) The oak is considered a cosmic storehouse of wisdom embodied in its towering strength. It grows slowly, but surely at its own rate. Oak is often associated with honor, nobility, and wisdom as well thanks to its size and longetivity. Oaks are known to easily surpass 300 years of age making it a powerful life-affirming symbol. “The oak is a living legend representing all that is true, wholesome, stable, and noble.”

https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/kyle-bass-and-others-on-china.294602/post-2096885

 

[SongSungAU]

 

[nowon]

China in the rear view mirror

Elliott Is First Major Fund To Flee Hong Kong After Its China Annexation

BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, JAN 19, 2021 - 17:30
With China having effectively taken over Hong Kong without the bought and paid for Western media as much as uttering a peep (compare China's annexation of Hong Kong to the "democratic media" reaction to Russia's takeover of Crimea) and crushing any semblance of even optical independence, it was only a matter of time before western financial companies left with no intention of ever coming back. Today, that's precisely what happened when one of the most respected hedge funds in the world, led by noted conservative billionaire Paul Singer, Elliott Management announced that it was closing its Hong Kong office, becoming one of the first large financial institutions to shutter operations in the territory since it entered a period of civil unrest and political tension in 2019. And now that the example has been set, we expect a veritable exodus of western financial firms out of the now defacto annexed territory.
Elliott, which was founded in 1977 and has had a presence in Hong Kong for 15 years, said It would move staff based in Hong Kong to its offices in London and Tokyo, which will become its only base in Asia.
As the FT first reported, a memo sent to investors said: “Consistent with Elliott’s longer term planning processes, we will be closing down trading and investment activities in the Hong Kong office and, effective January 1, 2021, transferring principal responsibility for existing Asian (ex-Japan) investment positions and for new situational trading and investments in Asia to the London office.”
Elliott's departure comes six months after China effectively annexed Hong Kong amid an unprecedented lack of condemnation by the free, independent and bought by China press, when Beijing imposed national security laws on Hong Kong, increasing its power over the territory.

Elliott is just the first: the Financial Times said it had contacted other funds which described plans to shift individual staff or parts of their operations to other cities in Asia, citing concerns that the business environment in Hong Kong is becoming increasingly unpredictable
The new Chinese regime in Hong Kong, which targets subversion of state power or “interference” by foreign countries, has raised concerns about Hong Kong’s future as a global financial centre. This includes fears the clampdown could lead to a flight of capital and talent to rival Asian business hubs in Singapore and Tokyo.

 

[nowon]

Good article on how different China treats financial crime.... they would have lined up JPM traders guilty of spoofing gold prices up against the wall

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351742978616827906

 

[SongSungAU]

China Committing Genocide in Xinjiang; Building Authoritarian Bloc—USCIRF’s Gary Bauer, James Carr (48 min 03 sec):

Published on Jan 23, 2021 by American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times​

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“What the Chinese communists are doing is trying to eliminate a whole people,” says Commissioner Gary Bauer of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.​

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The U.S. government, in the last full day of the Trump presidency, determined that the People’s Republic of China, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, is committing genocide against the Uyghur people.​

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Beyond mass imprisonment and forced sterilizations of Uyghurs, the Chinese regime is persecuting Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, and Christians for their religious beliefs. In churches, artistic renderings of Jesus are being replaced with images of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.​

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And the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to expand its repressive model abroad. It may soon be able to “create an authoritarian bloc around the world, a group of countries depending on Chinese technology, Chinese financial assistance, perhaps Chinese military help,” says Commissioner Bauer.​

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“That authoritarian bloc of dictators, despots, and countries like communist China...could become a major rival to the Western democracies,” he added.​

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In this episode, we sit down with Commissioners Gary Bauer and James Carr of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.​

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This is American Thought Leaders, and I’m Jan Jekielek.​

 

[newmisty]

Live q and a

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1353556366766518272

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1354105457460314112

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1353763534774046722

 

[SongSungAU]

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1355127804333944844

 

[SongSungAU]

NEW: a major BBC investigation has found evidence of the systematic rape of Uyghur women in Chinese concentration camps.
WARNING CONTAINS TESTIMONY OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=429869528334023

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1357364737848221701

 

[nowon]

 

[nowon]

Looks like the CCP failed getting the Rising Sun to roll over for them

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1357910923776778240

 

[SongSungAU]

It's a two minute video clip from an American Thought Leaders video featuring Joshua Philipp:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/062/897/129/original/a7fe9ec863826462.mp4

If you are interested in the full video, here it is:

Coronavirus Origins, China’s “Bat Woman," and the CCP’s Coverup—Joshua Philipp (27 min 53 sec):​

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Published on Apr 23, 2020 by American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times​

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359024480400539652

 

[SongSungAU]

Gordon Chang: Cooperation With Communist China Impossible—It Seeks to Overthrow America (38 min 27 sec):

Published on Feb 10, 2021 by American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times​

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated the United States will work with allies to hold the Chinese regime accountable. But at the same time, the Biden administration seeks to cooperate with the Chinese leadership in areas like the pandemic and climate change.​

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Is cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party possible?​

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In this episode, we sit down with China analyst Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” to discuss President Joe Biden’s recent executive orders and the future of US-China relations.​

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This is American Thought Leaders, and I’m Jan Jekielek.​

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1364010915465748484

 

[oldgaranddad]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359024480400539652

Easy way around this threat. Sorry China but all of our athletes are on the disabled list. See you next time.

...or better yet, they’re all sick with the Wuhan escaped bio weapon flu.

 

[SongSungAU]

The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366967824355311617

 

[SongSungAU]

Yuri Bezmenov Full Interview & Lecture - HQ (2:51:35)
Published on Mar 20, 2017 by ››› Oaken Embers Memoryhole

Yuri Bezmenov's full lecture given in LA in 1983. I have cleaned up the audio and filtered the video. But you can't polish a turd.

Introduction: 0:00
Slide-Show Presentation: 32:33
Subversion Lecture: 1:33:08
Audience Q&A: 2:36:09

Yuri Bezmenov worked as a "journalist" for Novosti Press Agency, which was a disinformation and propaganda agency controlled by the Soviet non-military intelligence agency (commonly known as the KGB). The Soviets called their disinformation work through Novosti "active measures," though Schuman uses the phrase "ideological subversion" to describe the activity of Novosti. Actually, "ideological subversion" was more of a term used by Soviet and Soviet-bloc propaganda to characterize the supposed actions of the West to undermine socialist and Communist ideology within the Soviet Union.

In the fifties and sixties, the Soviets and their allies began to use more creative means to mislead and misinform the West and the Third World, creating a cumulative effect that would in the long term be favorable to the Soviet Union. Novosti Press Agency was an overt and legitimate organization that published articles and books mainly for the West. It was ostensibly independent of the government, but we now know that this is a ridiculous claim. Most people assumed (and observed) that Novosti's work was somewhat propagandist, but until Bezmenov many did not realize the extent to which Novosti worked closely with the KGB to produce disinformation and mislead foreign governments and organizations, to the extent that Novosti's goals were quite simply the KGB's goals.

Looking back, many people might think that no one really took Novosti seriously. This is not the case. Western journalists and newspapers treated Novosti as a legitimate source of news and opinion. Papers like The New York Times used Novosti press releases just as they would the press releases of the AP, Reuters, AFP, or Groupe Presse. Novosti publications like the magazine Soviet Life and various books and travelogues were widely available in the United States and throughout the world and treated for the most part as honest, legitimate publications. Many of these publications can be found simply by searching Amazon for "Novosti Press Agency."

 

[newmisty]

Thank you for the more inclusive title SS.

 

[SongSungAU]

Thank you for the more inclusive title SS.

LOL! Well, I started this thread because of Kyle Bass. He has been (God bless him) yelling about the CCP for a very long time. I was posting his Twitter posts but then I added other posts about China and it eventually just became a place to post anything related to the damn Chinese Communist Party.

:-)

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1371282821642387458

 

[DodgebyDave]

Hey, China, remember when I called about your cheap ChinaSaw, you told me to just buy another saw.

Remember when I swore that by God and sunny Jesus that before I die I would stick that saw up a China man's ass?

 

[Unca Walt]

Hey, China, remember when I called about your cheap ChinaSaw, you told me to just buy another saw.

Remember when I swore that by God and sunny Jesus that before I die I would stick that saw up a China man's ass?

Sooper inside trivia: "chinaman" is equated by the Chinese as the same as a redneck saying "******" to a black.

They do it all the time to us. Whites are "baí pí zhū" = "white skinned pigs". They hold a deeper-intended slur meaning for blacks: "hēi guǐ" <-- lierally "black devil", where "devil" is the literal personification of an evil, destructive, barbaric thing.

They do not have to attend PC University.

 

[Thecrensh]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1371282821642387458

What's the liklihood that Xi gives a rat's behind about what polls say regarding China? They have a plan - part of that plan was getting the US out of the way for their upcoming invasion/annexation of Taiwan. Check.

 

[nowon]

Taiwan needs desperately to build and test their own nuclear bomb if they want to avoid invasion

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1374803205444485122

 

[gnome]

Taiwan needs desperately to build and test their own nuclear bomb if they want to avoid invasion

Yep, but OTOH, Taiwan developing nuclear weapons would be one of the things that would push the People's Republic over the edge to invasion. Not unlike Cuban missile crisis. Both Taiwan and China are willing to kick the can down the road with status quo on several key issues.

 

[nowon]

Yep, but OTOH, Taiwan developing nuclear weapons would be one of the things that would push the People's Republic over the edge to invasion. Not unlike Cuban missile crisis. Both Taiwan and China are willing to kick the can down the road with status quo on several key issues.

Considering the huge edge that the CCP has in all weapon and manpower numbers, MAD via submarine launched nuclear weapons is the only reliable guarantee for Taiwan to stay independent
Easy to armchair quarterback though...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1375019354375475200

 

[nowon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1374506929314099202

 

[SongSungAU]

 

[SongSungAU]

A record flight of capital — $43.6 billion — from Hong Kong to Canada as China cracks down

A record flight of capital — $43.6 billion — from Hong Kong to Canada as China cracks down

Electronic funds transfers reviewed by Reuters belie Hong Kong's assertion the city has not seen significant capital outflows since unrest first began in 2019

nationalpost.com

 

[nowon]

Crazy to allow adversary to run any part of the power grid

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1380891665376931844

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1380891667604115462

 

[newmisty]

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Beijing Accelerating Timeline for Possible Taiwan Invasion, Expert Warns​

BY FRANK FANG
April 4, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021
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TAIPEI, Taiwan—The Chinese communist regime is accelerating its plans to invade Taiwan, an expert warns, as Beijing ratchets up military maneuvers against the island.
Twenty Chinese military aircraft—including four nuclear-capable H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 fighter jets, two Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and a KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft—entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on March 26, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense. It was the largest incursion ever reported by the ministry.
Taiwan’s ADIZ, located adjacent to the island’s territorial airspace, is an area where incoming planes must identify themselves to the island’s air traffic controller.
The incursion was the most serious incident amid a significant increase in hostility by Beijing against Taiwan since 2020. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, reelected last January, has taken a hard line against threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while the island has deepened its cooperation with the United States—prompting the regime to escalate its warmongering toward the island.
The CCP sees Taiwan as a part of its territory and has threatened war to bring the island into its fold. The self-ruled island is a de facto independent country with its own democratically elected government, military, constitution, and currency.
The Republic of China (ROC)—Taiwan’s official name—overthrew China’s Qing Dynasty emperor in 1911. After the ROC retreated to Taiwan upon being defeated by the CCP during the Chinese Civil War, the CCP established a communist state called the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, while Taiwan gradually transitioned to democracy. To this day, the Chinese regime has refused to recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty.
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Last year, the Chinese air force flew about 380 sorties into Taiwan’s ADIZ, the highest number in a given year since 1996. So far this year, the Chinese military has been sending aircraft into the ADIZ on a near-daily basis.
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The island’s coast guard on April 1 announced that Beijing has been flying unmanned drones near Taiwan’s Dongsha Island, located in the northern part of the South China Sea. The authority said it couldn’t rule out that Beijing was using the drones for reconnaissance purposes.
Alongside military actions, the regime has sharpened its rhetoric toward the island. Earlier this year, a Chinese defense spokesperson threatened war against Taiwan if it declared independence.
On March 31, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the hawkish state-run media Global Times, wrote on his social media that he would like to order able-bodied men to go blow up bunkers in Taiwan in the event of war.
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An unnamed Chinese pilot, who flew one of the Chinese aircraft crossing into Taiwan’s ADIZ on March 29, said, “This is all ours” after being asked to leave the airspace by the pilot of a Taiwanese interceptor aircraft, according to local media, which obtained a recording of the pilot’s remark from the Facebook page “Southwest Airspace of TW.”

Preparing to Invade​

Beijing’s incursions are part of a series of dry runs in preparation for an invasion of Taiwan, John Mills, former director of cybersecurity policy, strategy, and international affairs at the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, told The Epoch Times.
Mills projects that these exercises could culminate in a large-scale dry run in the next two years. These dry runs are necessary, Mills said, given the complexity of amphibious landing operations—as well as the fact that the Chinese military has never conducted a forced landing on a hostile power in a real-life situation before.
Any amphibious assault on Taiwan may also involve swarms of Chinese civilian merchant vessels and fishing boats, he said.
He believes an invasion could come in the next three years—much sooner than the six-year estimate given by U.S. Adm. Philip Davidson, head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), during a congressional hearing in early March.
“If they haven’t done it in 10 years, I think [Chinese leader] Xi [Jinping] will probably have been removed from office. I think even six years is pushing it,” Mills said. He added that Xi could come under pressure to attack Taiwan to deflect attention away from internal problems, such as an economic crisis.
U.S. Adm. John Aquilino, the nominee to replace Davidson as head of INDOPACOM, at his confirmation hearing in March declined to endorse Davidson’s six-year estimate, but said the threat of a Chinese invasion is “much closer to us than most think.”
This point was echoed by former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who in March said Xi believes “he has a fleeting window of opportunity that’s closing” for attacking Taiwan. McMaster said the period from 2022 onward marks the time “of greatest danger” to Taiwan, coinciding with the conclusion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Chinese military isn’t yet ready for an attack against the island, Mills said. The problem is, however, that the longer it waits, the more ready and fortified Taiwan will be.
“We all need to be aware of and be ready for an acceleration of these timelines,” he said.
Beijing’s Taiwan ambitions stem primarily from its desire to acquire the island’s semiconductor-making capability, according to Mills. Taiwan is home to TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker.
China is heavily dependent on foreign semiconductors—tiny chips that power everything from cellphones to missiles. According to Bloomberg, China imported $380 billion in chips in 2020, accounting for about 18 percent of all its imports.
The regime is now struggling to secure foreign semiconductors following a series of sanctions slapped on Chinese companies by the Trump administration. U.S. sanctions have crippled the smartphone business of Chinese tech giant Huawei; Chinese chipmaker SMIC has also been put on a trade blacklist.

Hitting Back at US​

Soong Hseik-wen, a professor at the Institute of Strategic and International Affairs (ISIA) of Taiwan’s National Chung Cheng University (NCCU), told The Epoch Times that the Chinese regime was making a statement with its incursion on March 26, in response to actions by the U.S. government in March.
These events included President Joe Biden’s first summit with Quad leaders from Australia, India, and Japan; the meeting in Tokyo between Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, and their Japanese counterparts; and the Sino–U.S. talks in Anchorage, Alaska, according to Soong.
“These three events showed that there are structural conflicts between China and the United States, and they cannot be resolved through diplomatic negotiations,” he said.
The two-day talks in Anchorage were marked by heated exchanges on March 18, during which top CCP diplomat Yang Jiechi lashed out at U.S. foreign and trade policies over what he said was the United States’ struggling democracy and poor treatment of minorities.
The meeting highlighted how far apart the Chinese regime and United States are on critical issues, as the Chinese delegation rejected U.S. concerns about Beijing’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang, its crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong, and its intimidation of Taiwan, on the grounds that they are China’s “internal affairs.”
Viewing U.S. actions as escalating efforts to confront the regime, Beijing decided to flex its military muscle by sending a large aircraft squadron into Taiwan’s ADIZ on March 26, Soong said.
A bilateral agreement on coast guard cooperation between Taiwan and the United States—signed the day before the incursion—may have played into Beijing’s plan to take military action against Taiwan on March 26, Soong added. The agreement, he said, was a clear attempt to push back against Beijing after it passed a law in January to allow its coast guard to fire on foreign ships if needed.
With the agreement, the U.S. government was “explicitly saying” that the coast guard would also be a part of its maritime strategy to secure peace and stability in the region, Soong said.
China’s coast guard law has drawn widespread concern from its neighbors, including Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
On March 28, U.S. Ambassador to Palau John Hennessey-Nilan arrived in Taiwan as part of a Palau delegation headed by President Surangel Whipps. Palau is one of Taiwan’s 15 diplomatic allies.
Soong suggested that Beijing could have received intelligence of the U.S. ambassador’s visit to Taiwan, which would have prompted Beijing to show its disapproval since the visit marked the first time a sitting U.S. diplomat has traveled to Taiwan since Washington ended diplomatic ties in favor of Beijing in 1979.
Kelly Craft, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was originally going to visit Taiwan in mid-January, before her trip was canceled at the last minute.

Defending Taiwan​

In the face of an escalating military threat from China, Mills said the Biden administration should adopt an unambiguous policy of deterrence toward the CCP. Specifically, he said the United States should have a visible naval and air force presence around Taiwan, as well as in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Boosting Taiwan’s self-defense capability is also important, and the Biden administration should sell the island any weapons it asks for, in accordance with the Taiwan Relations Act, according to Mills. Under the legislation, the United States is obliged to supply the island with weapons needed for its self-defense.
Finally, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI), created under the fiscal 2021 Pentagon spending bill, would also be vital for U.S. forces in defending the region, Mills added. The PDI, akin to the European Deterrence Initiative, is aimed at securing advanced military capabilities to deter China’s military threats in the Indo-Pacific region.
To defend against a possible invasion, Taiwan “can never have enough ammunition,” Mills said, adding that the island’s recent move to begin producing long-range missiles that could reach deep into mainland China was a “big deal.”
Taiwan’s missiles are “a clear message that they’re going to reach out and inflict cost,” according to Mills.
Soong suggested that the Biden administration could support Taiwan in two ways: assisting Taiwan to participate in international organizations and welcoming Taiwan to become a part of a “trusted industry alliance.”
In February, Biden signed an executive order to begin a 100-day review of U.S. supply chains in several key sectors, including semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and rare-earth minerals.
The American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy in Taiwan, announced on April 1 that a virtual forum was held between high-level Taiwanese and American officials to discuss the effort to expand Taiwan’s participation in “U.N. organizations and other international fora,” including the World Health Organization (WHO).
Taiwan isn’t currently a member of the WHO because of Beijing’s objections.
The Biden administration could also take active steps to enforce several pieces of pro-Taiwan legislation that were signed into law by former President Donald Trump, Soong said. The legislation includes the Taiwan Travel Act, the TAIPEI Act, and the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act.
Taiwan, located on the first island chain, would be among the first targets of any Chinese military aggression in Asia. The first island chain is an arbitrary demarcation from the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, Taiwan, the Philippines, to Indonesia. For decades, the CCP’s military strategists have seen the first island chain as a barrier to the regime’s air and naval power, leaving the second island chain and beyond out of its reach.
As a result, Soong said that some European and Asian countries, in particular Japan and Australia, are observing Taiwan closely to see whether cooperation between Taipei and Washington is solid.
“These countries are watching how the U.S. government will enact these legislation, questioning whether it will pay lip service [about U.S. commitment to allies’ security] under certain situations,” Soong said.
The Biden administration has said its commitment to Taiwan is “rock-solid.” But according to Soong, how serious the administration is in defending the island remains to be seen, especially given that Biden himself has never used the word “threat” to describe the CCP.
Biden has instead framed the regime as America’s “most serious competitor.”
Soong said he foresees the United States and China engaging in small-scale military conflicts in the near future, especially around two Taiwan-controlled islands in the South China Sea—Dongsha and Taiping.
“I believe the United States and China are in a new cold war,” Soong said.
Cathy He contributed to this report.
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[nowon]

Not quite a nuke, but threat of destroying the Three Gorges Dam by either sabotage or long range missle attack would create even more damage.... very big deterrent