Second from Faddis: China will soon grab Taiwan, probably via blockade

Friends,

Sam Faddis on the Chinese Communist coming takeover of Taiwan.

After describing how the CCP will likely do it via blockade, Faddis writes:

Joe Biden is in the White House. He was an empty suit in his prime. That was many, many years ago. Over the years, the Biden family has taken literally tens of millions of dollars from the Chinese Communists. Biden is surrounded by men, like himself, who have gotten rich off of their relationships with Beijing.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the CCP to move on Taiwan. Any day it wants it can start cyber attacks on Taiwanese companies, utilities, and institutions. Without breaking a sweat Beijing can put aircraft and ships around Taiwan and begin to enforce a blockade of imports of food, fuel, and other key materials. The Taiwanese will lack any capacity to respond meaningfully or to break this blockage on their own. They will be isolated and starving in the dark and fully dependent on the United States of America to rescue them.

With Joe in the Oval Office, there is no chance such help will be forthcoming. Surrender will be inevitable.

Call it whatever you want – war or “non-war” – this is the almost inevitable future for the Taiwanese.

AnP again:

A Chinese grab for Taiwan will further crash the world economy, not least in China, which is exhibiting some severe financial troubles of all sorts. But Xi is as stupid as Bergoglio, and as monomaniacal. Xi will be modeling his moves on what Putin did in Ukraine, but there's no even remote guarantee it will work out the same way.

For one thing, the Taiwanese can be under no illusion what fate awaits them in China. Look at Hong Kong. Consider the Uighurs. Consider Tibet. And unlike in Ukraine, there's no large chunk of the Taiwanese population sympathizing with the invader. None.

For another, Chinese bureaucrats are even less moral, less industrious, less merit based than American ones. While we have, especially lately, hired and promoted bureaucrats and military leaders based on cronyism and "political correctness", that sort of thing is half century-long endemic to the Chinese. Likewise, our military the Biden Regime has tried to destroy on many levels, but the Chinese Communist Party controls the "People's Liberation Army" completely; it is not China's army, but the CCP's army. Literally. So, just how is this going to work in a major military operation on an island as rugged and defended as Taiwan? 

Also, unlike the general European military, which is mostly lacking in both numbers and hardware, the Japanese are not in that condition, nor are the Vietnamese, both of whom loathe Xi and the CCP. Then there's India: are they going to let Xi make himself even more powerful than he is? India and Brazil are near-future superpowers, but not if China overlords them.

Finally, would the American military – active duty and not – even in its current grotesquely demoralized state – really "stand down" in such a crisis? War changes everything and just about anything can happen. Especially since it would be SO easy for the Chinese to accidentally (or not so accidentally) destroy U.S. military assets?

We'll see. It looks like we will definitely see, and soon.

An Préachán