The U.S. military is also strengthening its presence and operational capabilities in the Western Pacific. Senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently said in an interview that the U.S. will not stand by if the Chinese Communist Party commits a crime against Taiwan, and that the Chinese Communist Party will lose the war. The picture is a diagram of U.S. military exercises in the Indo-Pacific.
On Friday (April 23), Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the commissioning and handover ceremony of three major warships in Sanya, Hainan. According to Taiwan’s strategic scholars, the commissioning of the main warships in the South China Sea demonstrates the CCP’s strategy of “defending the north and attacking the south” in terms of maritime power; if the CCP commits an attack on Taiwan in the future, the navy in the southern war zone can assume the role of “outer line of battle” to launch an offensive.
On the other hand, the U.S. military is also strengthening its presence and operational capabilities in the Western Pacific. Senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) recently said in an interview that the U.S. will not stand by if the Chinese Communist Party violates Taiwan, and that the Chinese Communist Party will lose the war.
Chinese Communist Party’s “North Defends, South Attacks” Strategy
On Friday, Xi Jinping attended the handover ceremony of three main warships in Sanya, Hainan. The three ships are the Type 094A nuclear missile submarine “Long March 18” with the number “421”, the Type 055 guided missile destroyer “Dalian” with the number “105”, and the Chinese government’s “Dalian”. “Dalian”, and the Type 75 amphibious assault ship “Hainan” with the number “31”.
The Central News Agency (CNA) reported that Su Ziyun, director of the Institute of Military Strategy and Industry at Taiwan’s National Defense Security Research Institute, said in an interview that the launch of the three ships in Hainan clearly shows that the Chinese Communist Party’s maritime power is to “defend the north and attack the south”; the Chinese Communist Party’s construction of a dock and a cavernous submarine base in Sanya, Hainan, in the past 10 years is early preparation.
Su Ziyun pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party’s northern and eastern theaters are surrounded by Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, which are not conducive to large fleet activities, while the South China Sea is a complete sea and deep water, which is conducive to the overall development and combined training of the Chinese Communist Navy’s surface and underwater fleets.
In the geostrategic part, Su Ziyun said that the South China Sea is the center of gravity of the Chinese Communist Party. In addition to the sovereignty dispute, the most important thing is that China’s maritime transport has to pass through the South China Sea, including trade routes and the most important energy routes, so the South China Sea can be said to be the maritime lifeline that sustains China’s economic activities. In addition, the subsoil of the South China Sea contains a large amount of natural gas, crude oil, combustible ice, which is extremely important for China’s future independent energy development.
Su Ziyun analyzed that the main reason for the deployment of three new types of Chinese naval vessels in the southern war zone is also related to the development of nuclear strategy. China (CCP) is actively enhancing its nuclear forces, including new intercontinental missiles, and the deep waters of the South China Sea are extremely suitable for strategic nuclear submarines to hide and operate as an important force for Beijing’s nuclear deterrence.
Su Ziyun speculates that if the Chinese Communist Party uses force against Taiwan in the future, it will form a new strategic strike direction, that is, the eastern theater of operations will be the main attack on Taiwan, while the navy in the southern theater of operations can play the role of “outer line of battle” to attack Taiwan.
The U.S. military to strengthen its combat capabilities in the Western Pacific Senator: If the Chinese Communist Party commits Taiwan will lose the war
The Federalist asked Graham what he thought the U.S. needed to do to send a clear message to the Chinese Communist Party in light of their increasing military activities and the different ways they are challenging the U.S. on the world stage.
Graham replied, “I like what Trump (Trump) has done, he’s risen up against the Chinese (Communist Party of China). You stole from us, and you’re going to pay the price. Human rights are still important.”
“Let the Chinese (Communist Party of China) know that if you try to occupy Taiwan, we will start a war and you will lose that war.” Graham said.
The U.S. military is clearly strengthening its presence and operational capabilities in the Western Pacific and preparing for conflict with the Chinese Communist Party in the coming decades.
Writing in The Nikkei on March 7, former U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis revealed the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s South China Sea action plans and said they have been sent back to the Pentagon pending a full review by incoming Defense Secretary Austin.
One of the plans is to play the role of the U.S. Marine Corps to fight a guerrilla warfare in the South China Sea with the Chinese Communist Party, whose militarized artificial islands in the South China Sea would be a very tempting target. The Marines will penetrate deep into the South China Sea and use armed drones, offensive networks, missiles, and even ship-to-shore strike weapons to attack CCP maritime forces, including land bases of operations.
In addition to this, the U.S. Navy will more aggressively patrol China’s offshore waters and gradually include allies in its free patrol teams to counter the Communist Party’s self-proclaimed sovereignty in the South China Sea.
In addition to the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force is likely to deploy more land-attack long-range bombers and fighters extensively in the Asia-Pacific region, including on some very remote islands.
The U.S. military will also deploy forces close to mainland China, including enhancing the capabilities of U.S. forces stationed in South Korea and Japan, and the Army and Air Force will conduct additional training and exercises with Taiwan. A newly formed U.S. Space Force is also expected to concentrate intelligence and reconnaissance in the theater.
Central News Agency reported that National Tsing Hua University Honorary Chair Professor Zhang Yanting said that the timing of the handover ceremony for the three main warships is not only related to the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Navy on the 23rd, but also shows that the U.S. is under pressure from the frequent activities in the first island chain in the western Pacific.
The first island chain consists of a group of islands including Taiwan, Okinawa and the Philippines, and is considered by the Chinese Communist Party to be its first line of defense.
The Republic of China military’s Han Kwang 37 exercise, a computerized chess drill, will run for eight days and seven nights from Friday to next Friday (30), making it the longest military exercise in the military’s history.
The Nationalist Party legislator Chen Yu-zhen believes that the military chess drill time is a record high, representing a very unsettled situation in the Taiwan Strait.
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