Stavridis said the Biden administration has listed several military actions by China and North Korea as “red lines.
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, writing in Nikkei Asia, said President Joe Biden’s national security team has identified a number of actions as “red lines” that threaten national security, including Chinese Communist Party The U.S. military will respond with military action if there is a forceful invasion of Taiwan and nearby outlying islands.
Stavridis’ article points to a recent article, “The Longer Telegram,” published by the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, which provides important clues to the new deployment of U.S. forces across East Asia. The article details the U.S. strategy for dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. He said it remains to be seen whether the Biden Administration fully adopts the measures outlined in the article, but believes his team is serious about addressing the Chinese Communist threat.
Stavridis believes that Kurt Campbell, head of Indo-Pacific affairs at the National Security Council, is qualified enough to lead a wide range of experts to provide the president with military options for the overall strategic picture. He believes that one of the military elements is a U.S. military response to possible “red lines.
These “red lines” touching on U.S. national security include “Communist China or North Korea attacking the United States and its allies with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons,” “Communist China invading Taiwan and nearby outlying islands by force,” and “Communist China economically blockading Taiwan or its outlying islands. “The Chinese Communist Party’s economic blockade of Taiwan or a large-scale Cyber Attack on Taiwan’s public infrastructure and institutions.
Other red lines include, “CCP attacks on Japanese forces defending Japan’s sovereignty over what Japan calls the Senkaku Islands (or Diaoyu Islands, as China calls them) and surrounding economic waters in the East China Sea,” “significant hostile actions by the CCP in the South China Sea to further develop and militarize the islands and reefs in order to deploy military forces against other claimants to sovereignty “The Chinese Communist Party has taken significant hostile actions in the South China Sea to further develop and militarize islands and reefs in order to deploy military forces against other claimants to sovereignty,” “obstructed the U.S. and allied navies from conducting full freedom of navigation operations,” and “attacked sovereign territories and military facilities of U.S. allies.
Stavridis said the U.S. Marines are determined to hold down the seas and maintain navigation to the waters of the South China Sea and into the first island chain.
He added that once in the first island chain, the Marines could use armed Drones, special forces “Marine Raiders” with cyber attack capabilities, anti-aircraft missiles and even ship-hunting weapons to attack China’s maritime forces and, more importantly, the PLA’s land bases of operations. He cited the example of the Chinese Communist Party’s militarized artificial reefs in the South China Sea, which could be within range of attack.
Stavridis said the U.S. Department of Defense hopes that NATO allies such as the United Kingdom and France can participate. The U.S. will also lobby Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam to participate in such military deployment operations. The U.S. wants to build a global maritime alliance against the Chinese Communist People’s Liberation Army.
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