The head of US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) said Thursday that the US military has the capability to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion and that it is “ready” to do so at any time.
Adm. John Aquilino told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that US “adversaries” are pushing the narrative that the US and its military are in decline. “I want to be very clear — we have the world’s greatest military on the planet,” he said. “We are here to continue to operate to ensure peace and prosperity through the region, and we have to be in a position to ensure that status quo remains as it applies to Taiwan.”
Tensions are high between the US and China over Taiwan. The US has stepped up its military activity near the island, is taking steps to boost diplomatic relations, and continues to sell weapons to Taipei. This week, the Biden administration approved its first arms sale to Taiwan, $750 million worth of howitzers and related equipment.
Discussing a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, Aquilino said, “The US is ready for any contingency should it occur.” The INDOPACOM chief said the US would use the concept known as “integrated deterrence” in such an event, which means the combination of all warfighting domains, including space and cyber. “So, when we pull all those together, let me just say that I have a level of confidence that the US military and Department of Defense is in a good place,” he said.
Aquilino and other US military leaders in the Pacific have an interest in hyping up the threat of China moving to take Taiwan by force. His command has been selling Congress on the Pacific Deterrence (PDI), a plan to spend over $27 billion between 2022 and 2027 to boost US military capabilities in the region. President Biden’s Pentagon budget request for 2022 includes $5.1 billion for the PDI.
Winken, Blinken and Nod lives in a World of Paranoid Terror and complete Fantasy. China isn’t going to invade Taiwan, the Logistics are too difficult to overcome. However, the Pentagon may stumble in into WWIII.
Blinkin, who does this joker think he is? USA cannot any longer build an army big enough to stop China, that is a fact!
How are “the Logistics too difficult to overcome.”? 190 mi. ? … you’re being ironic.
Wow, perhaps someone should inform Adm. John Aquilino of the recent wargames that saw the US routed every time it tried to “defend” Taiwan. The Chinese would easily crush any US forces attempting to capture Taiwan.
if china wanted to destroy the US they could simply make a real virus and send it over here in container ships. simple as that.
The admiral says “we are ready to defend China against China”; and we are ready to end the world as we know it to do so. But these are not madmen, no.
I lose a single Carrier I’m slamming 3 bunker busters into the 3 Gorges Dam but hey, let’s not talk like madmen…
Back across the rubicon you neo brits
“ US Is ‘Ready’ To Defend Taiwan”
Meaning … US Is ‘Ready’ To fight in China’s civil war.
lol
Defend Taiwan and lose Hong Kong too in the process.
Just like America is ready to defend Afghanistan. Luckily for Taiwan, China has no plans to attack.
defend Tiawan ? , America couldn`t win against the Taliban who have noair force ,no drones , no missiles , sohow dothey plan to take on China who has all the above and more ?
True, the US couldn’t win a 20-year occupation and counter-insurgency campaign.
A 20-year occupation and counter-insurgency campaign is not the same thing as a short-term, head-to-head, conventional battle between similarly configured forces.
The question you’re asking is the equivalent of “Tom Brady couldn’t win the World Series of Poker, how does he plan to win the Super Bowl?”
To use a sports analogy, the US claiming they could defeat China right off China’s coast is like the fictional Bad News Bears claiming they could defeat a major league baseball team in the World Series.
As I noted in my comment here, wargames show US forces would be completely routed by Chinese forces.
Recent history has shown that no matter the odds, the US will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Military commanders have no idea their war dreams are ridiculed by reality as well as the majority of US citizens. No more than twelve to fifteen percent pf the population are christians who favor dictatorship to support the US constitution. We saw their style when they attacked the capitol on January 6th.
Military planners dreaming of regime change in Iran and war with Russia and China speak for a rag tag mob of rightwing christians and that’s it. They cannot presume loyalty from a population that is already squeezed by austerity to pay for military idiocy.
Nuclear tech is from the 1930’s. Modern precision guided man-made meteorites are the weapons old-fashioned US nuclear terrorism faces. The craters from bowling ball sized meteorite impacts do real damage. Such craters do not target civilians and leave no poison or radioactive residues. The meteorites themselves are cheap and unstoppable.
China, Russia, Iran, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and many other countries are cheering as stupid generals and admirals drive the US into bankruptcy.
You speak against dictatorships, yet you glorify dictatorships. The brainwashing is rooted deep in you.
Every time I hear some American general expressing I would like to ask him: “Which war did you win since WW2”. Except, of course, the glorious invasion of Granada & the infamous raid on Panama. More & more it looks like the US military has taken the US population hostage in order to satisfy its welfare.
If China invaded Taiwan and the US stepped in to defend Taiwan, support among the American people would be a mile wide and an inch deep. If everything went well militarily, probably no one would say anything. But if the going got rough for the American armed forces, look out.
Oh how the US military elites drown in their own satire. Defend Taiwan ehh…The US may have advanced weapons, but they are no match to actual pragmatic thinkers who win with strategy. China would make short work of any American armada near Taiwan. China has studied one US military folly after another…there are many…China has nothing to worry about period.