Are China’s Threats to Taiwan a Bluff?
What is China, dispatching bombers and fighters around the southern and eastern coasts of Taiwan, up to?
The AUKUS Preparing a Nuclear War to Sustain Taiwan
The announcement of the Australian-British-US (A-UK-US) pact [1] was like an earthquake in the Indo-Pacific region. There is no doubt that Washington is preparing for a long-term military confrontation with China. Until now, the Western deployment to contain China politically and militarily has involved the United States and the United Kingdom as well as France and…
Can They Learn? Another US Wargame Defeat
The war game turned out to be a rather accurate predictor of the future. (Note: by tradition, going back to the first Prussian Kriegsspiel, your side is “Blue”, the other side is “Red”. Soviets did it the other way round.) According to David Halberstam, when Washington was considering escalating its presence in Vietnam, a wargame…
How Taiwan Will Fall into Beijing’s Lap, Like an Overripe Mango
I will now explain war, or some of it. If you wonder how some mutt in Mexico with a computer thinks he knows about strategy, well, look at what we have in Washington. How could I be worse? In geopolitical circles, blather swirls over whether the United States can defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion…
On the Brink in 2026 – U.S.-China Near-War Status Report
So, welcome to the world TomDispatch regular Michael Klare, founder of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy , considers as he peers into a future in which the Chinese Missile Crisis of 2024 or 2026 is anything but beyond imagining. Tom It’s the summer of 2026, five years after the Biden administration identified the…
US-Taiwan: West’s Last Foothold in China
In Washington’s ongoing and ever-growing confrontation with China, it continues to place pressure on Beijing over Taiwan. However, as China continues along a path soon to exceed the US economically, militarily, and technologically, Taiwan’s reintegration as part of a single China is all but inevitable. Recently introduced legislation attempting to reinforce US influence over the…