Why would Trump call Xi?

 My earlier post started with the position that it was Xi that called Trump. This was corrected by Mao Ning that the call was initiated by Trump. The crisis caused by the Japanese woman has reached a point when Xi had decided enough is enough. This woman and her militarist Japanese gang must be stopped NOW. Xi has decided what he has to do to stop this woman from starting a war. The consequences were grave, and it was appropriate to inform the master of the doggies to prevent any misunderstanding. China does not want a war with the US, but it is necessary to deal with the aggressive Japanese, and very likely it would lead to the settling all the historical blood debt for once. 35 million Chinese cannot die for nothing.

The Americans may have more than 50,000 soldiers in Japan, and another 20,000 in South Korea. To China, this is small change. It used to be enough to threaten China. Today, China could take them all out in the first 30 minutes of an all out war. China has more sophisticated, deadly, powerful and accurate missile forces than anything the Americans have seen. An all out attack on Japan and American forces would not be the same as Iran hitting Israel with a few missiles and then stood down, game over. The effect to be achieved would be to neutralise all offensive forces in Japan and South Korea. This is WAR! It is not a game where one party throws a stone and the other party throws a stone back. It could lead to a nuclear holocaust if not restrained. If the Japanese dare to land a missile in China, then there is nothing to hold back China to send everything it has into Japan! The Japanese islands might even sink.

Xi would want to give notice to Trump to stay out of this war and all American bases and forces in Japan and South Korea would be safe. The Americans cannot afford to lose them all when war started. Why would Trump call Xi first instead? Very likely the unofficial sources like the intelligence services would be in contact and the Chinese side would have told their American counterpart what was coming. Such a serious matter must have gone straight to Trump immediately. 

Trump may be colluding with the Japanese to provoke China, to harass China. But he knows very well not to push the envelope to an open war with China. The American forces in the whole of western Pacific Ocean are inadequate, too little to defend against the full might of 2 million PLA. The Russians and the North Koreans are also part of the equation. The American bases are equipped with mainly offensive weapons from a time when America was the dominant unchallenged power, can hit anyone they like, and no one can hit back. Thus, the bases have very little or limited defensive systems to protect themselves. They are naked and could easily be taken out by the sophisticated Chinese missiles and drones in the first wave of a war with China. China cannot afford to be generous and kind as the counterstrike if not neutered would be equally damaging to China. The PLA's mission would be to kill all in one go.

When Trump got the message, he panicked, he knew things are going out of hand. And the Japanese woman is waving the America Japan Treaty as a badge of safety and protection. They are going to drag the Americans into what they had started, a war with China. The Americans would be put to test whether they would die defending Japan against a nuclear superpower. No matter how stupid or silly Trump and his warhawks are, they know that this is a war they cannot win, and once any missile landed on Chinese soil, Chinese missiles would land on American soil. China can hit back just as hard on American homeland. This is something not to trifle with.

Trump had to defuse the tension and nip the flame before it was too late. So he hurriedly called Xi to stabilise the situation. Trump did not have to if the Americans really want a war with China now. He could let the Japanese woman fan the flame of war and WW3 would be with us in no time. Some good sense visited the White House to calm the tension for now. 

But this is not the end. The warmongering Americans would still want to bring down China, to stop China's growth. They would be huddling in the East Wing for a pow wow session to decide the next move. To fight or to take flight. The world would have a short reprieve and wait to see what the warmongering terrorists in Washington are up to. Would the hawks win the day and say it is now or never to take down China? 

Caveat, it is the Americans that is calling the shot, calling for war, NOT China! Stop demonising China, that China also pushing for war with the Americans. China is growing stronger and richer by the day without the need for war. In fact, China would want peace to continue its growth and become the strongest and richest economic power given peace and time. The loser, the Americans are hoping to change their fortune by going to war.