By then, it is well known that Joe Biden’s administration has created a more erratic political environment. The lack of powerful and capable U.S. authority has given America’s worst enemies the confidence to carry out their destabilizing goals, most notably Red China, from Eastern Europe to the Middle East.
The Middle Kingdom has tremendously increased its violent behavior toward the United States and its allies in the Indo-Pacific over the past four years. This includes, among other things, using hostile military drills and additional “gray area” tactics against Taiwan, which Beijing views as Chinese province and has threatened to use force if necessary.
Chinese authorities discovered a Chinese vessel’s November maneuver, which involved cutting an underwater internet cable that was connected to the island. The apparent act of sabotage, according to The Wall Street Journal,” sent ] a message about the island’s vulnerability and its internet.”
The event occurred just before Taiwan’s National Security Bureau revealed there were 2.4 million strikes per day on average, which is double the amount of attacks that Taiwan experienced last year. Most of these problems, the commission noted, came from China.
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It will be up to President-elect Donald Trump to deal with the increasingly erratic position in the Taiwan Strait while Biden departs disheartfully into the twilight. There are a number of steps the approaching commander-in-chief you get to hinder China from starting a military offensive against the island nation, but reliability and mortality are still top priorities.
” If we don’t get this right, Taiwanese socialism will be on the dominance throughout the world”, Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Security, told The Federalist.
The Blueprint to Prevent Bloodshed
Trump and his administration were extremely successful in bringing stability to world spots all over the world during his first word. The soon-to-be 47th leader is, in Sadler’s opinion, reverse this pattern in the Taiwan Strait by preventing China from starting an invasion of Taiwan, and that means using America’s military might.
The new administration should take lessons from John Lehman, the president’s Navy minister, during a significant naval exercise that the Heritage senior fellow suggested. The presentations were organized by the United States and its NATO supporters in the North Atlantic to promote the alliance’s military might and, in turn, deter Russian aggression. Spanning 250 ships and more than 120, 000 personnel, the procedure is credited with properly demonstrating NATO’s ability to move its ships “undetected into the Scandinavian Sea and ‘ succeed’ the Atlantic, controlling NATO’s north wing in the North Atlantic without the Soviets ‘ being aware”, according to the U. S. Naval Institute.
According to Sadler, while any related practice undertaken by the U. S. and its regional allies in the Indo-Pacific doesn’t seem “exactly the same”, the Trump presidency is “take a bit” of lessons from Ocean Venture’s victory.
Sadler said,” The Soviets were not prepared for that, ] and that [it ] signaled that we were ready and willing to take risks and send our fleet into their so-called bastions.” ” The message needs to be delivered that way]to China ]”.
The Navy veteran even advised the administration to conduct “fleet tests” similar to those conducted by the U.S. war in the 1930s” to best the type of conflict that it might have to fight.” Sadler argued the importance of conducting such activities to make for potential future problems with China, citing America’s victory in the Pacific against Imperial Japan.
Beijing did “know that we’re sharpening our blade, and that will have a warning impact”, Sadler said. ” The goal is to deter China, but it’s also to buy President Trump time to make more concerted, deliberate decisions, to take the strategic initiative away from the Chinese — not only in the military ]arena], but in the economic and diplomatic arena]s ]”.
Sadler has recently reaffirmed the need for America to significantly increase its maritime and shipbuilding capabilities in order to compete with China, which has the largest navy in the world, in the face of expanding coastal powers. Likewise, the size of the U. S. naval ship has shrunk greatly since the end of the Cold War, putting U. S. sea hegemony and safety in trouble.
In terms of the China-Taiwan fight and politics in general, Will Thibeau, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute, stated to The Federalist that managing quarrels across multiple theaters of wedding will be the biggest problem facing the U.S. war moving forward. He cited the fact that the military” cannot fight and be everywhere at once” and that U.S. foreign policy “has not caught up with that reality.”
The greatest challenge is to prevent multiple, potentially existential threats to the American way of life without being able to allocate military resources in the same way for each issue, Thibeau said. The threat is based on the assumption that the military’s strategy will continue to operate in the same manner as it has for decades. It’s not, and we need to change if we’re going to compete on the world stage”.
To read more about the biggest military issues facing the incoming Trump administration, see here.
Shawn Fleetwood is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
