A ship-borne helicopter attached to a destroyer flotilla with the navy under the PLA Northern Theater Command practices lifting off and landing on the flight deck of the guided-missile frigate Anqing during a maritime training exercise in late July, 2021. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Ma Yubin)
Washington Free Beacon: China Launches Massive War Exercises Near Taiwan
The Chinese military is ramping up massive military exercises in the South China Sea intended to brush back the United States as the Biden administration pleads with the Taliban to bring Americans back home from Afghanistan.
People's Liberation Army Navy forces are conducting drills in the South China Sea, Yellow Sea, and Bohai Strait near Korea until Thursday.
The intense war drills come shortly after another set of military exercises off the coast of Taiwan intended to help China achieve "supremacy" in a potential showdown with the United States and Taiwan, and in response to recent activity in the South China Sea, according to one former Chinese colonel.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese are having these exercises with two US warships in the region .... PLA on alert, holds drills amid US Taiwan Straits transit of US warships (Global Times).
Large nations hold war exercises almost all the time?
ReplyDelete"Each year US Pacific Command participates in more than 1,500 exercises and other engagement activities with foreign military forces."
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/ex-pacom.htm
But really large ones like RIMPAC are not always held yearly.
There has got to be a lot of costs with these Chinese exercises. The Chinese soldiers would have had some sort of training regardless of a large exercise or not. So the total cost is not the thing, but the extra cost of a large exercise.
The pace of exercises has stepped up as have the capabilities.
Every week or month after the Olympics as China grows stronger and then US gets weaker, I look for something to happen.
I believe China is testing Biden and the establishment much as a referee pushes down on the gloves of a boxer, who has taken a beating to test if he is fit to continue.
Next summer is ahead of the midterms. We often have planned, programmed and paid for rioting ahead of elections in the US. It is a staple of liberal politics and Democrats are in trouble. What if there are riots in several large cities? I could see where Xi thinks we are distracted in the US rightly or wrongly.
IMO you do not need 2 million or 200,000 people to hit the beaches initially in Taiwan to take it. You only need 20,000. That is feasible logistically.
Politicians and some military officers have no idea what G1, G2, G4, G6 look like in China. They may have read it, but they read it without comprehension. Therefore they have no idea what the Chinese TOE is or how effective it is. Chinese probably do not either until push comes to shove.
I wouldn't be surprised if the ChiComs make a push under the cover of a large scale excercise. The calibre of the American civil, military & intelligence leadership is very poor. These blokes would bury their heads in the sand if their tension indicators showed a build up for military ops. They'll say that the 1st time they knew of military action was when the missiles landed. Keep ducking 🙈
ReplyDeleteNow comes THE decision for Biden. Are the Chinese bluffing or not?
ReplyDeleteAs long as it is not a position of the Chinese navy to block American aid from Okinawa.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, idiot Kamala Harris lays wreath on Hanoi's "John McCain Monument", not realizing that it is a memorial to his captors.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-john-mccain-monument-vietnam-3-years-after-death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%BAc_B%E1%BA%A1ch_Lake
Trúc Bạch War Monument
On October 26, 1967, during the Vietnam War, US Navy aviator John McCain was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile on a mission against a Hanoi power plant and parachuted wounded into Trúc Bạch Lake. He was dragged out of the water and captured by city residents angry at having seen the area laid to waste by previous U.S. attacks. He was later taken away as a prisoner of war. A monument commemorating capture of "Tchn Sney Ma Can" was erected at the western shore on Thanh Niên Road.