And this was a report from a year ago. Xi Xinping and China's rhetoric has grown increasingly bellicose since then. Some of which is quoted in this report.
A Chinese admiral enthusiastically expressed his eagerness to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier in the South China sea. And Xi's continued rhetoric about violently crushing any nation that stands between China and its seizure of Taiwan. Although as I cited earlier, a Taiwan invasion poses huge risks for China, an invasion on the scale of the Normandy invasion in 1944, that could be a destabilizing embarassment for China if it fails. And the revealed weakness and heavy losses for Russia in the Ukraine invasion no doubt make China not want a similar national humiliation. China seems to prefer economically and diplomaticaly isolating Taiwan, to get them to surrender without a war. But I'm deeply concerned that Biden's weakening of the U.S. makes China increasingly confident that if they invade Taiwan, the U.S. will either be unwilling or even incapable of defending Taiwan.
As with an Australian 60 Minutes report I posted early in the Covid-19 topic in March 2020, and other British articles I've posted, I'm often amazed at the facts detailed in British and Australian media, that George Orwell's liberal media in the U.S. completely ignores.
