As Bloomberg reported in October 2022, former officials with ties to the Pentagon have urged the Biden administration to destroy Taiwan’s semiconductor industry in the event of a Chinese military assault. The outlet cited Elbridge Colby, a rabidly anti-China former Pentagon official, proclaiming, “We can’t allow such a valuable equity to fall into Chinese hands, I think it would be nuts.”
Last year, the US Army War College’s most-downloaded paper called for a similarly ruthless strategy. “To start, the United States and Taiwan should lay plans for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render Taiwan not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain,” the paper proposed. “This could be done most effectively by threatening to destroy facilities belonging to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the most important chipmaker in the world and China’s most important supplier.”
“An automatic mechanism might be designed, which would be triggered once an invasion was confirmed,” the paper suggested, adding that the US and its allies could “give refuge” to Taiwanese workers in the sector, while Taipei could make “and publicize plans to target the mainland’s chip-fabrication lines using cruise and ballistic missiles, including the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation facility in Shanghai.” The paper also proposed a “preplanned sanctions campaign against any chip exports to China.”
Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien had also hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan’s semiconductor factories fall into China's hands, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream.
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Bob O'Brien went to TPE at the invitation of the DPP govt lecturing them on how to fight China.
His strategy- arm every Taiwanese with, AK47.
A former NSA under Trump, this shows how out of touch these "experts" really are.
They forget that Taiwan is technically Chinese territory (& ironically recognised as such by US) and an US attack on Taiwan/Taiwanese assets meant that US attacked China.
That is just like Japan doing a Pearl Harbour on US at the start of WW2.
They already suggesting directly hitting Shanghai with missiles:
". . . plans to target the mainland’s chip-fabrication lines using cruise and ballistic missiles, including the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation facility in Shanghai.”
They only think they can hit China but never think China can hit them back just as hard.
Clear signs of lacking wisdom and poor judgement. Signs of a failing empire.
Just like the Ukraine War, thinking it was so easy, that Russia would collapse within weeks or at most 6 months. Now as the war drags on, the European countries are going to be bankrupt by this silly war. They have no stamina and resources to fight a long protracted war, and losing.
Internally the USA is breaking apart and still wanting to cause trouble for many countries around the world. Their main preoccupation now is pivoting towards China, and abandoning Ukraine, which the USA sees as a lost cause. Yeah, they did vow to help Ukraine whatever happens. The same empty promise, I believe, they had given to South Vietnam when talking about the domino effect, and abandoning Afghanistan after 20 long years, leaving behind US$7.2 billion worth of military equipment, which the Afghans have repaired using reverse engineering of some of the equipment and now using them after repairs, free of charge. It was a windfall to compensate partly for the seizure of Afghanistan reserves held by USA of US$7 billion.
There is a world of difference though, between what is moral and what is immoral. Holding on to the bank reserves of Afghanistan is a blatant travesty of human rights, when those reserves are needed to help Afghan citizens. That is why sanctions normally fail to turn citzens against the Government being sanctioned, thereby defeating its objective, and makes them even more resolute to go against the USA and the West. What the Taliban got hold of in weapons left behind is no theft, robbery nor anything immoral, unlike the USA seizing the Afghan reserves by force.
The American robbers are so poor and so desperate that they even robbed from the poor tribesmen of Afghanistan. What a shameful lot.
If they think attacking China's chip manufacturers is a one way street, they are dead wrong. China could do the same with chip facilities in Arizona as well, and TSMC is also there. Chip manufacturers elsewhere in the USA too can be pinpointed with satellites criss crossing the sky.
This is not WW2 that spared the USA from being targeted by outside forces. This will no longer be a one way USA air superiority and missile superiority situation. It works both ways now. No quarters will be spared and no air defence can work with hypersonic missiles. How many can they shoot down and the statistics shows it is not even one on one scenario. A few launches are needed to take down one incoming missile. Even a static balloon needed more than one missile to take down. And what about decoys? Think of it!
It is time China uses an old map and send a few cruise missiles into the American fortress in Taiwan. Then apologises to the Americans for using an old map.
USA are still robbing the Syria oil until today. Up to now $105 billions dollars of oil have been taken away. It is equivalent to 200 thousands 4 rm hdb flats. Worst than mafia.
Robbing Syrian oil??
Wah! Got Reserve Currency status still stoop to robbing other country's oil??
Is it because printers cannot kep up with expenses??
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