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[dawg80]

The guided-missile submarine USS Ohio is strutting its stuff in a joint training exercise with small craft borne US Marines near Okinawa, Japan sending a message to the Chicoms of the capability of US subs. The USS Ohio does not, currently, carry nukes, but rather a variety of regular high-explosive warheads via 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and an array of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, as well as torpedoes.

But the bigger point is not the exercise near Japan, but rather that the Ohio passed very close to Taiwan some days ago UNDETECTED by the Chicoms, who have invested heavily in an array of anti-sub measures. This is a clear message to the Chicoms to be very careful about messing with Taiwan.

Now, it is true the Chicoms do possess an array of sub-hunter subs, anti-sub helicopters, and some anti-sub missiles. But, their effectiveness is limited to the waters much closer to China's coast. A US Navy spokesman stated we are very much aware of the Chicoms' capability to attack subs closer to their home waters, but vessels like the USS Ohio, and our others of the "Triton Class," can strike targets well inside of China without getting close to Chicom waters.

[PawDawg]

Glad Biden was able to get our military back in shape in a couple of weeks.

[dawg80]

Glad Biden was able to get our military back in shape in a couple of weeks.

Amazing, isn't it!

But, I am glad to see that, thus far anyway, Biden is continuing Trump's policies of standing firm against the Chicoms. It is still very early and of course Biden, or his puppet-masters, can change course at anytime.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Amazing, isn't it!

But, I am glad to see that, thus far anyway, Biden is continuing Trump's policies of standing firm against the Chicoms. It is still very early and of course Biden, or his puppet-masters, can change course at anytime.

Biden is all lip service with foreign policy. He has only sign EOs to fulfill his and his commie China/Russian buddies and Iranian killers wishes to “Make America Last”.

After targeting the USA with their China Flu here’s the chi-con’s next trick.

China Targets America’s Rare Earth Vulnerability
Feb 18, 2021

WASHINGTON—China is reportedly looking into curbing the export of rare-earth minerals to the United States, which may become a new source of friction between the two countries.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in January proposed draft controls on the production and export of rare-earth minerals and provided 30 days for public comment.

During the comment period, industry executives were asked to assess how U.S. and European companies could be affected if Beijing decided to cut rare-earth exports during a bilateral dispute, the Financial Times reported, citing people involved in the discussions.

“The government wants to know if the U.S. may have trouble making F-35 fighter jets if China imposes an export ban,” a Chinese government adviser told the Financial Times.

Industry executives were also asked to comment on how quickly the United States could secure rare earths from alternative suppliers or increase its production capacity.

Rare earths are 17 metals that are required in the manufacturing of airplanes, computers, cell phones, electricity generation and transmission systems, and advanced electronics.

China controls about 80 percent of the global supply of rare-earth minerals and sees its dominance as leverage that can be used against the West. It’s not clear whether China can really weaponize rare-earth exports, as it could backfire by forcing other countries to increase their own production capacity.

The timeline to increase production capacity at home “could in fact be very, very short” with more government support and industry innovation, according to Pini Althaus, CEO of USA Rare Earth, a mining company that is developing the Round Top rare-earths deposit in Texas.

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https://amac.us/china-targets-americ...ign=newsletter

[FriscoDog]

Biden's China Chief "Fine with the CCP Spreading Influence in America"

Biden’s China Chief Said She Was "Fine" With the CCP Spreading Influence in America And Pre-Briefed Communists Ahead of a Major Summit.

Quote:
Emails also reveal Hart saying she is “fine” with Chinese think tanks broadening their “international influencing” in the United States. She has also secretly provided Chinese Communist Party Premiers with questions ahead of conferences.

Hart’s newfound post as China Policy Coordinator to the Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment will allow her to “oversee a review of Trump administration policies.” Bloomberg notes she’ll focus on the Trump team’s “Clean Network” Initiative, which encouraged countries to block Huawei, a controversial and compromised Chinese Communist Party-linked telecommunications company, from 5G networks.

Hart’s past, however, casts her as an unlikely figure to be tough on Beijing.



https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusi...rt-emails-ccp/

[dawg80]

Two Japanese F-2 fighters (blue) escort three US F-16 Falcons and a B1 Bomber in a joint exercise. The cooperation between the US and Japan is tightening.

[Guisslapp]

Biden's China Chief "Fine with the CCP Spreading Influence in America"

Biden’s China Chief Said She Was "Fine" With the CCP Spreading Influence in America And Pre-Briefed Communists Ahead of a Major Summit.

Quote:
Emails also reveal Hart saying she is “fine” with Chinese think tanks broadening their “international influencing” in the United States. She has also secretly provided Chinese Communist Party Premiers with questions ahead of conferences.

Hart’s newfound post as China Policy Coordinator to the Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment will allow her to “oversee a review of Trump administration policies.” Bloomberg notes she’ll focus on the Trump team’s “Clean Network” Initiative, which encouraged countries to block Huawei, a controversial and compromised Chinese Communist Party-linked telecommunications company, from 5G networks.

Hart’s past, however, casts her as an unlikely figure to be tough on Beijing.



https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusi...rt-emails-ccp/

That is extremely misrepresentative of the facts.

Her email said “That is fine. The problem is...”

Translation: it isn’t actually fine because it presents a problem.

[FriscoDog]

That is extremely misrepresentative of the facts.

Her email said “That is fine. The problem is...”

Translation: it isn’t actually fine because it presents a problem.

Then are they going to allow it or not? "That is fine" seems like they are going to allow it.

[Guisslapp]

Then are they going to allow it or not? "That is fine" seems like they are going to allow it.

Who is “they”? She was acting as a representative on behalf of CAP at that time (2015). She couldn’t allow or stop anything.

That article you posted is entirely misleading.

[dawg80]

The Brits join the fray.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier group has entered the Pacific Ocean on its way to join the coalition forces operating in and around the South China Sea. The QE is accompanied by a long-range, ocean-going nuclear submarine, capable of delivering nukes on Chicom targets 1,500 miles away, and two guided-missile frigates. The US is sending the escort destroyer the USS The Sullivans, to protect against enemy subs, and France and Germany are committing frigates to join the QE group providing protection against Chicom air strikes.

The HMS QE is the first carrier to use the new F-35 attack fighter-bomber. It will have 24 F-35s and 14 attack helicopters. And a compliment of scout planes and drones.

Britain is currently putting an amphibious assault ship thru sea trials, and will soon deploy it with a support fleet to the Pacific as well. The British ship will be able to accommodate a battalion of British Marines, about 800 soldiers, and support personnel. And will have an array of amphibious fighting vehicles.

And Norway is working closely with the US to host B1 Bombers from Norwegian bases that will allow our bombers a northern approach to strike China. Norway has also added a long-range attack submarine, two frigates and a support ship to its navy. They have also deployed the latest US-built anti-aircraft missile batteries to key points on their coast and near the airbases.

The only mention of the new administration in the series of articles, is a rather mundane: the Biden administration has notified the Pentagon to continue with all current (i.e. Trump admin) plans pending review. No timetable has been given for said "review" and no indication of how much, if any, of the Trump admin's plans re: China might be altered. Let us hope that Biden busy himself wrecking our country via stupid energy policies and the open border, and allows the REAL ADULTS to deal with the Chicoms. So far, he has.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Dozens of Experts Confirm China Has Committed ‘Every Act’ in Definition of Genocide.

A report published this week by the independent think tank Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, in which dozens of experts participated, concluded China is indisputably guilty of genocide against the Uyghur people of western Xinjiang.

The Chinese Communist Party has for decades persecuted the Uyghur minority of Xinjiang, a Turkic, Muslim-majority group. Persecution led the way to what multiple international observers, including the administrations of both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have labeled genocide under current dictator Xi Jinping. Xi’s regime has implemented a pervasive concentration camp system in Xinjiang, building at least 1,200 concentration camps in the region where as many as 3 million Uyghur people — and other minorities such as Kazakh and Kyrgyz people — have been forced to live.

The few survivors of the concentration camps who have chosen to speak out testify to being subject to brutal torture in the camps, including systematic rape, and communist indoctrination. Evidence indicates Beijing has also enslaved much of the Uyghur population and forced them to travel nationwide for arduous agricultural and industrial labor.

The Newlines report looks specifically at the legal definition of genocide, a crime under international law, and analyzes the mounting evidence of human rights atrocities in Xinjiang through the lens of this crime. Genocide is defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention. To find a state or other entity guilty of genocide, the accused party must be found guilty of at least one of several acts listed in the convention:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The acts must be committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.”

More


https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/...tion-genocide/

[FriscoDog]

This is very unsettling, and will only get worse I'm afraid... What's weird is that Yahoo is reporting it.. so you know it must be bad...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/were-goin...170003936.html


“At that point the trend in our war games was not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster,” Hinote said. “After the 2018 war game I distinctly remember one of our gurus of war gaming standing in front of the Air Force secretary and chief of staff, and telling them that we should never play this war game scenario [of a Chinese attack on Taiwan] again, because we know what is going to happen. The definitive answer if the U.S. military doesn’t change course is that we’re going to lose fast. In that case, an American president would likely be presented with almost a fait accompli.”

[dawg80]

This is very unsettling, and will only get worse I'm afraid... What's weird is that Yahoo is reporting it.. so you know it must be bad...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/were-goin...170003936.html


“At that point the trend in our war games was not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster,” Hinote said. “After the 2018 war game I distinctly remember one of our gurus of war gaming standing in front of the Air Force secretary and chief of staff, and telling them that we should never play this war game scenario [of a Chinese attack on Taiwan] again, because we know what is going to happen. The definitive answer if the U.S. military doesn’t change course is that we’re going to lose fast. In that case, an American president would likely be presented with almost a fait accompli.”

Yeah...but...

Been reading this kind of alarmist rhetoric for decades coming out of the Pentagon. Remember, along with everything else true about it, the Pentagon is still your basic bureaucracy clamoring for funding, "Woe is us, give us more money!" Of course the Chicoms are building up their military, and of course they want to TAKE Taiwan anyway possible, and that includes by military invasion. Nothing new there. This is why the Trump admin spent so much time and effort building coalitions and helping regional nations, right down to little ole Maldives, island nation near India, to provide for their own defense and to participate in an international anti-Chicom military operation.

Bear in mind that Saddam's Iraqi army was the 4th largest in the world in 1991, and it took all of 100 hours for the US Military and our allies to lay it to waste. On paper...much like China's...Saddam's army looked impressive and scary. And it was...on paper. In reality they got their asses kicked quick. Yes, the article mentions the Chicoms took notice of that...or, did they!? The war games discussed is an invention of our military strategists...a worse case scenario. Now, you might think, well now the Chicoms know the recipe for victory in a "Taiwan War," our military war gamers have shown them the way! But nothing...thus far...in the Chicoms' own war games indicate they have caught on to it.

Reality check...if the Chicoms are willing to endure high casualties, and I mean HIGH casualties, nothing in conventional military doctrine/capability can stop them invading and "capturing" Taiwan. The Chinese mainland is only 90 miles away from Taiwan. Short of using nukes the international community can NOT stop a 100 million man army from successfully taking the island nation. And that has been true since 1948. What has stopped the Chicoms then? Well, probably some of the same reasons the US has not invaded and taken Cuba from the commies. Could we? You betcha! But there would be a price to pay.

Provided the Biden admin doesn't totally eff this up...and so far they have not done a thing to roll back the Trump's admin policies and strategies re: the Chicoms...they (the Chicoms) know what they are facing. Their best chance to successfully invade Taiwan was during the obummer admin. Holy chit! the US did NOT have a single operational carrier group at sea, the first time that had happened since 1935. And that year Congress looked around and said, "Holy chit!" and by 1938 we had four new carriers operational. The Chicoms could have strolled ashore during the obummer admin, but they didn't.

Today the US has 27 carriers operational, 13 super carriers and 14 escort and special attack carriers. Our allies, the Trump coalitions, "The Quads," contribute 8 more carriers...whoops, make that 9 since the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier group has joined the fray. The Chicoms have 2 carriers, armed with woefully inferior aircraft. They wouldn't last 30 minutes in an all-out war. What about all those land-based Chicom aircraft, you ask. Exactly! "land-based" operating from already targeted bases, fixed, unable to move/maneuver like carriers can. All those anti-ship missiles mentioned in those war games take an average 45 minutes, at best! to reach carriers operating out to sea. By the time they arrived, the carriers/the fleets would be miles away.

Bottom line is this, and this especially true at this point in history...the price tag for invading Taiwan is WAY TOO HIGH for the Chicoms. As long as the US is willing to lead, and our allies in "The Quads" are willing to stand next to us, the Chicoms would suffer a huge, devastating, CRUSHING and HUMILATING defeat! No way, although capable of doing so, would the Chicoms keep fighting after suffering millions of casualties. And, probably, the Chicom generals/military leaders would shout "No more!" to the commie bastard politicians and end the war.

Nope! the Chicoms blew it when they didn't take advantage of the worst POTUS in history, Barry obummer.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Well...well.

8 hours ago

Former top State Dept investigator says COVID-19 outbreak may have resulted from bioweapons research accident.

The virus may have resulted from research by the Chinese military at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, David Asher believes

https://www.foxnews.com/world/top-st...eapon-accident

[dawg80]

Well...well.

8 hours ago

Former top State Dept investigator says COVID-19 outbreak may have resulted from bioweapons research accident.

The virus may have resulted from research by the Chinese military at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, David Asher believes

https://www.foxnews.com/world/top-st...eapon-accident

Of course. We know the Chicoms are experimenting with all kinds of biological and chemical agents that can be used as weapons. We also know the China virus originated in, or around, Wuhan and that by way of their own activities surrounding Wuhan, and especially the research lab there, in November-December, 2019, something bad happened. There was an Australian scientist working in the Wuhan lab who was quickly, w/o suitable explanation, ushered out of the country. Chicom officials showed up at his apartment, told him to pack his bags, and he was put on a plane home. He was among the first whistleblowers screaming "something bad has happened!" Shortly thereafter Japanese intelligence agencies, who closely monitor Chicom military activity, provided reports to her allies, including the US, and we immediately via diplomatic channels opened communication with the Chicoms asking for information and then offering to help. Both the Japs and the Aussies put together emergency biological response teams and offered to send them to Wuhan to assist. They were denied.

We have been over all of this before on this board. This is the China Virus and WHO is in bed with the Chicoms. Yeah, our lefties love it because they can blame Trump for all our woes while at the same time getting their jollies destroying America. We REAL Americans already know the truth, but one would think that those who claim to be American but who suffer from TDS, might take a step back from the "bad orange man" ledge and open their eyes to reality. One can be unhappy with Trump as POTUS and at the same time point their finger at the Chicoms and say "they are evil and cannot be trusted." Or, maybe some can't chew gum and walk at the same time.