Where is the red line the U.S. has set for China? James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Army general who served as the top commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization allied forces, recently wrote an article revealing this.
Stavridis recently wrote to Nikkei Asia that the basis of the overall U.S. maritime strategic posture is to build a global maritime alliance to counter the high-capacity forces of the People’s Liberation Army. U.S. red lines include: China or North Korea attacking the U.S. and its allies with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons; China’s forceful invasion of Taiwan and its outlying islands, including an economic blockade of Taiwan or a large-scale Cyber Attack on Taiwan’s public infrastructure and institutions.
Other red lines include: Chinese attacks on Japanese forces defending the Senkaku Islands and surrounding East China Sea economic waters; significant hostile actions by China to further develop and militarize islands in the South China Sea to deploy forces against other claimants; obstruction of full freedom of navigation operations by U.S. and allied navies; and Chinese attacks on U.S. allies’ sovereign territories and military installations.
Stavridis said that in the context of the U.S.-China strategy, the U.S. Marine Corps will firmly hold the seas and be able to sail into the South China Sea and penetrate the island chain that China relies on for defense. Once there, the Marines would use armed Drones, cyber attack capabilities, powerful special forces “Marine Raiders,” anti-aircraft missiles and even ship-hunting weapons to attack Chinese maritime forces and even Communist land bases of operations. For example, China’s militarized artificial reefs in the South China Sea.
Stavridis revealed that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (U.S. Indo-Pacific Command) strategic, operational and tactical teams are developing new options for U.S. military deployments, which will be sent to the Defense Department as part of the new Secretary Lloyd Austin’s comprehensive situational assessment. In particular, the Defense Department hopes that NATO allies such as the United Kingdom and France will be involved. It will also hope to persuade Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam to participate in such military deployments.
Central News Agency: James Stavridis is the 16th Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the 12th dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The 12th dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, he has spent most of his military career in the Pacific and his new book, 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, was recently published.
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