The real threat to world peace is Xi Jinping not Vladimir Putin

Scott S. Powell

     Wake up everyone. If you found supply chain delays intolerable in the delivery of cars and appliances as a result of Covid, things will get much worse if Taiwan falls to the mainland CCP. The great threat to world peace is not the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, but rather it is Mainland China’s PLA Navy and Air Force—and their daily aerial penetration of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone and armed patrols in and around islands belonging to smaller neighbors, such as Vietnam, Japan and the Philippines. 

     The fact is that Ukraine ranks in the top ten most corrupt countries in the world, and, in Europe, Ukraine is the second most corrupt country after Putin’s Russia. Not only is the Russian-Ukraine conflict not a fight with which we should get involved, the United States needs to focus and marshal its foreign aid and military assets where they are most needed.

     The greatest threat to world stability and disruption of critical global trade is  Communist China’s growing military and naval power that is increasingly being used for bullying, intimidation and the ultimate forced reunification of Taiwan, located in the South China Sea—90 miles off the coast of mainland China. 

     From a strategic perspective, Russia’s subjugation of all or parts of Ukraine pales in comparison to the loss of Taiwan to Communist China. Today everything runs on semiconductor chips, and Taiwan is the most critical link in the entire global semiconductor value chain.

     Few people realize it, but Taiwan manufactures some 64% of the semiconductors used in the manufacture of millions of products worldwide. A single company in Taiwan, appropriately named Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Ltd, actually manufactures 92% of the world’s most sophisticated chips that go into smart phones, computers, medical equipment and automobiles. 

     The United States and its Pacific allies need to do more to show their commitment to the defense of free trade and an independent Taiwan. And behind the maintenance of an unquestionable deterrent, the Pacific Quad alliance of the U.S., Japan, Australia and India should repeatedly proclaim that their unwavering military capabilities are backed by their shared commitment to freedom, democratic principles, equal treatment of all citizens, human rights, and the rule of law.  Xi Jinping simply has no answer to the power of a multilateral military deterrent coupled with moral principles that define us.   

 

 

 

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