US Navy Intel Chief Warns China’s ‘Messianic’ Totalitarian Leader Planning a Taiwan War with USA

well China continues to assert its powerand influence in the Pacific and thetiny island of Taiwan is in beijing'scrosshairs China's president has orderedhis military to be ready to invade by2027 and President Biden has vowed tosend U.S military forces to help theisland defend itself well George Thomasbrings us the story from Taipei Taiwanlast August the Chinese military sent aloud wake-up call to the United Statesand allies in the regionwith this massive unprecedented drillsimulating a blockade of Taiwan itcrosseda multi thresholdsuh that did not happen for decades176 warplanes 41 Navy ships and dozensof attack and reconnaissance droneschoked off taiwan's Waters and airspacefor 72 hours11 ballistic missiles also landed in thewaters around the islandDr Alexander Huang is a leading TaiwanChina military specialist China gave youknow one spoon of different dishesto Taiwan and we got the taste alreadyif they put out the food platethe whole tablewe probably will have a big problem addmilitary activities near the islandhaven't stopped a record1727 Chinese fighter planes crossed intotaiwan's Air Defense Zone in 2022compared to 916 incursions in 2021 and380 in 2020 2023 has been no differentthe Chinese outward expansionism ofinfluence and presence is scaring anddestabilizing an entire you know regionexperts say while Taiwan has awell-equipped military with modernweapon systems including fighter jetstanks and surface-to-air missiles itlacks the range of capabilities todefend itself against China yes there's110 miles of water between China and themain island of Taiwan and yes Taiwan ismountainous and is a perfect place forDefenders but Taiwan has not in investedin its defense and part of that isbecause taiwan's generals and Admiralshave bought the wrong equipment over thecourse of decades in January awashington-based to Think Tank simulateda war game of China invading Taiwan in2026.in 24 different scenarios the center forstrategic and International Studies saidTaiwan could likely fend off a ChineseInvasion only if the United States cameto the Island's defenseif not Taiwan would fall in three monthsPresident Biden has repeatedly vowed todefend Taiwan in case it's attacked tobe clear sir U.S forces U.S men andwomen would defend Taiwan in the eventof a Chinese Invasion yesU.S Taiwan relations have really comeout of the shadows in a lot of ways Ithink European countries Japan andothers are going to be focused on thisand supportive of taiwan's a right todefend itself war games show however anyvictory over the Chinese would come at agreat cost in four weeks of fighting theUnited States typically lost hundreds ofaircraft two aircraft carriers and up totwo dozen other ships more than 3 000American soldiers would lose their livesin the simulation and China would alsosuffer significant losses csis says thesimulation shows 90 percent of China'samphibious Fleet decimated more than 100warships destroyed and tens of thousandsof its soldiers killed wounded orcaptured still from Washington to Londonto here in taiwan's capital Taipei onething is clear it's not a matter of theyear if they were invased it's when it'smade of the when they were invent wereyou surprisedformer head of taiwan's armed forcestell CBN News why China's president isso determined to take Taiwan you'llfirmly believe that Xi Jinping trulybelieves that it is his Destiny it ishis calling to reunite Taiwan I believeso because he has already said as wehave the patient we can wait even for100 yearsohbut shichimi doesn't didn't say so hesaid as The Witcher cannot delayed theunification of Taiwan we need toaccomplish the in our generation asentiment that runs deep in Chinesesociety and that's why it's not just acommunism thing it really is in Chineseeyes a patriotism and nationalism thingpresident XI has ordered his militaryknown as The People's Liberation Army tobe ready to take Taiwan by 2027 whichmarks the forces 100th anniversary butcould that be a smoke screen U.S AirForce General Mike minihan told hisstaff in a memoto prepare for the U.S going to war withChina over Taiwan in two years I hope Iam wrong my gut tells me we will fightin 2025.many hand to overseas transport andrefueling for the Air Force wrote lastmonth meanwhile rear Admiral Michaelsturtman commander of the Office ofNaval intelligence warns that she'srapid military modernization coupledwith an ambition to be the world'sstrongest political figure makes Chinatoday the number one challenge of the21st century history tells us that aMessianic leader with centralizedcontrolin charge of a totalitarian Society withgrievanceswith a lot of hard power at theirdisposalwith an ambition to change theInternational System to theirpreferencesthat you put that combo together andthat represents one of the mostdangerous Trends in geopolitics the USis now deploying additional troops toTaiwan increasing funding for existingPacific military operations and recentlyaimed to deal with the UK and Australiato build next-generation submarines in abid to counter China's threat still it'sdoing little to deter BeijingGeorge Thomas CBN News Taipei Taiwannow this is a long-standing dispute onthe mainland they view Taiwan as a rogueProvince they view it as literally aMandate of Heaven that they are tocontrol Taiwan control Tibet control theSilk Road all of these things are partof the national Consciousness but in thehistory of China China you don't have togo back too far just go back to 1912 andsanyat said it was this great promise ofdemocracy in Chinathe initial Republic of 1912 had greatpromise for that but then it broke apartand there was a series of Warlords whocame up and from that a horrible CivilWar and the invasion of the the Japanesethey took advantage of what was going onthe internal division within Chinathe horrors that happened in Nanjing allof these things and then that Civil Warcontinued after World War II and therewere two main players Mao and ChiangKai-shek well chiangkok lost and heevacuated his troops to Taiwan andcreated a democracy there that hasabsolutely flourished they're one of theleading economies in the world and theyactually showed China what could happenif you liberalize get a liberal economicpoliciesbut that dream of being the MiddleKingdom that dream of territorialsovereignty over a rogue province isabsolutely in the National Consciousnessand they want this so what do we do tosupport a democracy we've beentraditional allies of Taiwan since WorldWar IIum how do how do we respond are we goingto respond with Force well our presidenthas now committed us to do that andthere's now an ongoing treaty with Japanto Stage military troops on JapaneseIslands in order to respond to aninvasion from Taiwan Invasion from Chinato Taiwanthese are interesting times that we livein and when a president of a SovereignNation says prepare for war and he tellsthat to his military we should all wakeup and we should also wake up to it'sour internal divisions our internalpolitics that are encouraging this kindof behavior and whether it's theinvasion of Ukraine or a potentialinvasion of Taiwan if they perceive thatwe're weak politically that we don'thave the political will to stand byDemocracy stand by the the freedoms thatwe hold so dearly well they willabsolutely take advantage of it andwe're seeing it across the world stagetoday