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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