Politico Predicts U.S. Focus Switching From Ukraine To Taiwan If China Intensifies Actions

The US could shift its focus from Ukraine to Taiwan if China further escalates the situation. Politico writes about this, referring to one of the high-ranking European diplomats.

In Europe, they believe that switching attention to Taiwan would be the worst-case scenario. Indeed, in this case, the main US aid will be directed to Taiwan, and Ukraine will actually be pushed into the background. This, by the way, is very beneficial for Russia, as it will allow a special military operation to be carried out at a much more rapid pace.

At present, NATO is not particularly worried about the Taiwan crisis. The situation with the island does not directly threaten European countries. However, everything can change at any moment. It is significant that the United States itself is acting as a provocateur of the Taiwan conflict. Given the status of Taiwan and troubled relations with China, the height of both political cynicism and political stupidity was story with the visit of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi to East and Southeast Asia.

No one forced the US administration to advertise Pelosi's upcoming visit to the region and emphasize that she will visit Taiwan. But this was clearly done to test the seriousness of China's intentions.

It is significant that Pelosi's visit was announced almost immediately after the telephone conversations between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took place. Biden assured the Chinese leader that he did not support Taiwan's aspirations for sovereignty. And then - a message about the upcoming visit of Pelosi.

So far, a delegation led by Pelosi is in Singapore. The speaker plans to discuss the most important issues with US allies in the Asia-Pacific region. Whether Pelosi will fly to Taiwan is still unknown.

Parts of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) are also awaiting the visit. Earlier, they started military maneuvers in Fujian province. This border province of mainland China is separated from Taiwan only by the Taiwan Strait. Interestingly, the amphibious equipment of Chinese motorized rifle formations was involved in the exercises, and this is a direct hint to the Taiwanese authorities.

In China itself, a number of media outlets have come up with proposals to simply shoot down Pelosi's plane. Of course, Beijing would never do such a thing, but the very fact that tensions between China and the United States are growing at a very fast pace is impressive. If this continues, Washington will indeed have to choose one of the directions - Ukrainian or Taiwanese. In the current situation, the United States will not pull an active struggle on two fronts, against two great powers.

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[tihonmarine]

In Europe, they believe that switching attention to Taiwan would be the worst-case scenario.

For whom the worst, but for Russia the best.

[KAV]

The FSA played cheaters. And, as you know, when caught cheating, the cheater breaks not only his hands, but also his neck, in most cases. Including, FSA should not get so carried away with this topic. Especially when those who are able to break their arms and necks appeared ...

[marchcat]

The FSA has no other choice when there is a "mess" at home, let it not only be with them.

[Tatyana]

Pelosi decided to pull the Chinese tiger by the whiskers, without heeding either the voice of reason or warnings. Namely.

Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi still rushed to Taiwan, despite all the Chinese warnings. The plane with the parliamentarian took off from Travis Air Force Base in California and went to Asia.
At the same time, the US Air Force reports that Nancy Pelosi's flight will refuel in Taipei, Taiwan.
China will definitely allow refueling.
At the same time, we believe that The United States lies that the plane will land for refueling, but in reality everything will be according to the scenario of the visit.

All this is risky. The PRC can then literally do anything - starting from a no-fly zone over Taiwan, when all air traffic is blocked.
For example, Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov is interested in his Telegram channel:

- why did this mischievous lady go to Taiwan? What is the purpose of Nancy Pelosi's visit? Other than intensifying the confrontation with China, nothing comes to mind. Well, okay, Ms. Pelosi is going to be re-elected to the US House of Representatives, and for this she needs to show herself as a strong-willed and tough politician, ready to "put Beijing in its place"

- American Pelosi does not even understand that her behavior can become the detonator of a major and unpredictable global conflict.".

Is Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Ukraine, finally, not enough for her? The United States has not only become the world's policeman, but also the main source of all conflicts on our small planet.

See details - https://spb.tsargrad.tv/news/pelosi-djornula-kitajskogo-tigra-za-usy-samoljot-ushjol-na-tajvan_595362?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

[Tatyana]

It should be noted that Pelosi is now a third party in the US!
Therefore, Pelosi can not arbitrarily act only on behalf of his beloved!
In other words, all Pelosi's actions in Taiwan are coordinated with the US leadership in Washington at all levels.

Provocative Pelosi's action - the USA - on Taiwan is directly connected in complex with the domestic and foreign policy of the USA. This is where you need to look for real causal links of the Taiwanese-Chinese US PROVOCATION in the Pacific region!

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: KAV

Especially when those who are able to break their arms and necks appeared ...

No. The Chinese economy is more than half tied to exports to the countries of the Western world. China will not now cut the branch on which it sits.

[KAV]

Quote: Ingvar 72

The Chinese economy is more than half tied to exports to the countries of the Western world. China will not now cut the branch on which it sits.

I don't understand here. Why, in most cases, everyone talks only about the interests of China? Why is no one talking about the interests of the West? Yes, China will feel bad if it loses exports. But! And what will the West be like if it loses Chinese imports? Are they able to quickly and painlessly replace his absence? Yes, they have the cost of producing similar goods many times more than Chinese + inflation + the absence of the entire list of industries. I think that with a full-scale economic war between the West and China, it will hurt the West much more than China.

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: KAV

Why is no one talking about the interests of the West?

Because the West, although with losses, will be able to make up for the loss of Chinese goods by transferring them to production sites in other countries with cheap labor. China will have nothing to replace the loss of markets.

[KAV]

Quote: Ingvar 72

The West, although with losses, will be able to make up for the loss of Chinese goods by transferring them to production sites in other countries with cheap labor

For example, which countries? At what time? How much will this move cost the West? Here, after all, this is not a real-time strategy on a PC, this is real life. Everything is not as easy to do as it seems.

[lucul]

Because the West, although with losses, will be able to make up for the loss of Chinese goods by transferring them to production sites in other countries with cheap labor.

Name me the countries where you can move world production (on a global scale), and then name the energy balance of these countries. Production was transferred to China because there was a lot of cheap coal and there was a lot of free electric energy on this coal, otherwise nothing would have happened. Let me remind you - China produced more concrete in just two years than the United States in the entire (100 years !!!) twentieth century.
Now cheap labor is not a priority at all - automated lines completely replace it.
Now the key is raw materials and electricity, and then only to Russia.

[Plate]

The United States, at a minimum, produces its own food, and China buys $200 billion worth of fertilizers and $90 worth of various food products every year. That is, if China is pulled out of world trade, it will have to face a food crisis. This is clearly more terrible than the lack of consumer goods that Americans will face in such a situation.

[KAV]

Quote: Plate

The United States, at least, produces its own food

Maybe.

Quote: Plate

China buys $200 billion worth of fertilizers and $90 billion worth of various food products every year.

So what? Do you think that if relations with the FSA are broken, they will have nowhere to get fertilizer from?
Export of fertilizers to China:
Canada with a 40% share (885 million US$)
Russia with a share of 24% (536 million US $)
Belarus with a share of 15,3% (334 million US $)
Israel with a share of 8,12% (176 million US$)
Jordan with a share of 7,45% (161 million US$)
Laos with a share of 1,33% (29 million US$)
USA - 14,6 million US$
Germany - 13,2 million US$
United Kingdom - 9,81 million US$
Uzbekistan - 3,24 million US$

[Plate]

Canada, Germany and Great Britain fall away immediately along with the USA.
And if China is pulled out of world trade, then it will not have a currency for purchases in other countries.

[KAV]

Quote: Plate

Canada, Germany and Great Britain fall away immediately along with the USA.

AND? No one will be able to compensate these volumes?

Quote: Plate

And if China is pulled out of world trade, then it will not have a currency for purchases in other countries.

Yes, of course. Exactly the same as ours? By the way, the yuan is quite a running currency. Yes, of course, it will suffer under the sanctions, but the dollar and the euro will then collapse completely. Here in real life relationships there are no one-sided results.

[Plate]

AND? No one will be able to compensate these volumes?

And who will be able to compensate them sharply? Unless, in the end, by roundabout ways, they buy from the same Canada and co.

Yes, of course. Exactly the same as ours?

Perhaps I am misjudging the potential of Western political and economic power, but I think if they wanted to press and crush us, they would have done it - they would have acted more aggressively, and not in the way they are now.
There are no one-sided results anywhere. Any sanctions are a double-edged sword that pierces both sides. The question is, in whom will she make a big hole and who can pour out more blood from herself.

[KAV]

Quote: Plate

And who will be able to compensate them sharply?

Why abruptly? These alternative options China can prepare in advance. If not already prepared.

Quote: Plate

Perhaps I am misjudging the potential of Western political and economic power

Exactly. For:

Quote: Plate

if they wanted to squeeze and crush us, they would have done it

And they didn't. Because, corny, there was not enough strength. Because the sanctions stick poked them so hard in their own side that they howled in pain. That's why they're freaking out now.

[Plate]

And they didn't. Because, corny, there was not enough strength.

Is the option being considered that they are trying not to crush us, but to send us where they need to go? Is that why they act so sparingly that I can still actively use bank cards, use the Internet and go to the store?
Howled, it seems, only Europe. Well, it’s clear with her - a big bargaining chip, which was saved up from the WWII itself and finally put into use. So far, there are no objective reasons for pain in the States themselves. There are some weird things going on.

[KAV]

Quote: Plate

Is the option being considered that they are trying not to crush us, but to send us where they need to go?

If you're asking my personal opinion, the answer is no. I believe that the goal of the West is to completely crush us, and not to direct us in the right direction. They already sent once. What came of it, everyone knows. Therefore, now they will not make a second such mistake and are going to press to the end. Only now, something went wrong for them.

Quote: Plate

That's why they act so kindly.

Oh is it? Wow, sparingly... They tried to do everything to make the common people live as badly as possible. Only now, it didn't work out.

Quote: Plate

I can still actively use bank cards, use the Internet and go to the store

And everything you listed belongs exclusively to the West? We have had our own processing centers for a long time. The Internet is also their own, and they will never block it, because they themselves actively need it, for espionage and support of the fifth column, for terrorism and other things. Shops - this is where it’s more interesting, you can’t go to all the shops now, because some of them have closed and left our market, but nevertheless, most people don’t feel much discomfort from this. So, all this is not the merit of the West, but the merit of the Russian Federation.

Quote: Plate

Howling, it seems, only Europe

Exactly, it seems. In FSA, howling costs no less. It's just that everyone is spitting poison in our direction. And in Europe, they howl because they were pinned down from both sides, from the FSA it is a complete robbery, and on the side of the Russian Federation there is no result from the sanctions that they have been waiting for and dreaming about.

Quote: Plate

So far, there are no objective reasons for pain in the States themselves. There are some weird things going on.

Don't tell. For a simple American, expensive gasoline is like a Faberge sickle. And everything else goes up at the same time. They are very accustomed to stability, which is now gone. Yes, and the authorities there are well aware that if they do not dump us and China, then in a very short term their entire economy will fail. That's why they fuss. And the hustle and bustle, as usual, leads to mistakes. That's why they're doing weird things right now.

[lucul]

That is, if China is pulled out of world trade, it will have to face a food crisis. This is clearly more terrible than the lack of consumer goods that Americans will face in such a situation.

Do not be ridiculous - ALL industry will rise in the USA, including the military-industrial complex, and power stations too. Because everything "to the last screw" is made in China.
And the Chinese have lived on a handful of rice a day for 5 years, they are no strangers.

[Plate]

Yeah, in Russia, too, everything to the last screw was produced abroad, but then it turned out that not everything. In the US, the situation is certainly better. And I don’t believe in such a rigid import dependence of the American military-industrial complex. Again, this is not observed even in Russia.
You quickly get used to good things. And to the bad - no.

[opposite28]

It’s bad when the deck is a marked card, and the person playing with the card sharper knows the marked cards. The sharper is sure of his victory, but then the sharper plays with a deck of cards (or a deck of cards plays the sharper), and not with the player (the player uses the sharper using the cheat of the sharper's deck). Gambling is harmful to health.

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: KAV

The FSA played cheaters. And, as you know, when caught cheating, the cheater breaks not only his hands, but also his neck, in most cases. Including, FSA should not get so carried away with this topic. Especially when those who are able to break their arms and necks appeared ...

If they were on the same continent with us, they would break it, and so they grieve knowing that nothing will happen, they will ignite a conflict across the ocean.

[tralflot1832]

To meet the Pilosi plane with an honorary Chinese escort near Taiwan is probably real. The Americans have only 80 - 90 aircraft on board the aircraft carrier, and that's for 1,5 - 2 hours, then landings, refueling, takeoffs. The Americans will not shoot. They will shoot in the South China Sea , but they will fly to their homes in the USA, they will return to the ashes and are not sure that they are winners. Is sleeping Joe the commander in chief?

[Paul Siebert]

Quote: tralflot1832

They will be shot in the South China Sea, and they will fly to their homes in the USA, they will return to the ashes and are not sure that they are winners.

[Fisherman]

Grandma no longer wants to go to Taiwan, it dawned on her that she was set up by her own people when China said "we will shoot down" (and the Chinese leadership does not throw such statements into the wind). So the Taiwan War is postponed. But the Yankees are already setting fire to Kosovo and Iraq, because the recession requires sacrificial lambs!

[aszzz888]

Fisherman (Dmitry)
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Granny no longer wants to go to Taiwan, it dawned on her that she was set up by her own people when China announced "let's shoot down" (and the Chinese leadership does not throw such statements into the wind). So the Taiwan War is postponed. But the Yankees are already setting fire to Kosovo and Iraq, because the recession requires sacrificial lambs!

Remains on the submarine. Through her torpedo tube, in the sense of a sawmill.

[Fisherman]

spit out an American ... through a torpedo ... spit out

[tralflot1832]

The Democrats framed themselves with their militant rhetoric. After such an UPS, the PRC is simply obliged to behave more impudently. The Serbs and Albanians have an interesting question. But even there the West has driven itself into a dead end. It will be difficult for them to solve it with an eye to Ukraine. the weight.

[lucul]

for recession calls for sacrificial lambs!

What recession? There, the loan interest requires a switchman, to whom you can allegedly transfer the arrows of guilt, for printed tons of fiat money.
So that the moneylenders turn out to be white and fluffy again)))

[Fisherman]

Wild recession! Such that the White House no longer shines for Bidon ... and his party ..

[barclay]

Demons don't sit still. And they have some restless old men.

[Paul Siebert]

Quote: barclay

Demons don't sit still. And they have some restless old men.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: barclay

Demons don't sit still. And they have some restless old men.

According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, the nuclear Icebreaker "White House" washed up on sandy beaches long ago.

“On the one hand, I would like to call Pelosi’s flights a dangerous military-political adventurism. On the other hand, “flights in a dream and in reality.” Everything that happens to the American politician is so inadequate and surreal,” she wrote in her telegram channel.

[Cap.nemo58rus]

"An active struggle on two fronts, against two great powers, the United States will not pull in the current situation."
Do not pull, the navel will untie.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Cap.Nemo58rus

Do not pull, the navel will untie.

Afghanistan was not enough for the states, they decided to break their teeth.

[aszzz888]

tihonmarine (Vlad)
Today, 09: 55
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Quote: Cap.Nemo58rus
Do not pull, the navel will untie.

Afghanistan was not enough for the states, they decided to break their teeth.

The teeth are fine. Insert. But if the ridge is broken, then it's already considered in the morgue. And for this, the Merikatos have every chance.

[Murmur 55]

I will express my opinion, there will be nothing serious there, so the show-offs will leave and disperse, America does not need dead Chinese (at this stage) The United States needs dead Russians and on an industrial scale, so Ukraine will not be thrown away as long as there is at least a ghostly chance to inflict damage on Russia both in people and in the economy.

[Gennady Zavalov_2]

I don't think. If success was planned there, it's another matter. Now they have to throw the Ukrainians off the cart, we have to smash them when there is no American help, otherwise there is a complete loss of face. And so, America is gone, its problems, this and that, and the whole world will see that without America, no where, I think now is the time for them to get rid of Ukraine, maybe they have enough mind for this.

[Ravik]

"Nancy" - I drew you, but I never knew your love ...

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Ravik

"Nancy" - I drew you, but I never knew your love

This is by chance, not your picture?

[GNM]

Quote: Ravik

"Nancy" - I drew you, but I never knew your love ...

[AIK05]

It would be an ideal option for both us and the Chinese, if our President and Comrade Xi agreed on the simultaneous start of the NWO, then the Americans were confused, such a surprise as a blow in the stomach

[neworange88]

The Chinese are already working out the option of neutralizing Taiwan's air defenses. Perhaps in the near future they may begin an operation in Taiwan.

. “PLA Air Force fighters have successfully worked out a breakthrough in enemy air defense systems. At least two Su-35 fighters broke into the Taiwan air defense identification area and used electronic warfare systems to set up “noises” against American air defense,” the source said.

To date, the PLA Air Force is armed with 24 Su-35 fighters, which were previously delivered to China by the Russian side. These aircraft have the most powerful and effective electronic warfare system, which was successfully used against American air defense systems.

https://avia.pro/news/istrebiteli-su-35-pri-pomoshchi-kompleksov-reb-podavili-amerikanskie-pvo-zashchishchayushchie

[salavat]

Yes, probably. Taiwan is high-tech production. And not Ukraine, which has only hatred for the Russian Federation.

[kor1vet1974]

Have not yet decided whether the plane with Pelosi should fall or not, and where to fall or let it still fly

[Sergei Klimov]

China will not go to war even in Taiwan. They have never been warriors.

[Uprun]

Did the "Buryats" fight in Korea?

[Saboteur_Navy]

It’s time for China to start, otherwise there won’t be another profitable situation, now the US fleet is smeared with a thin layer around the world, now the 7th fleet will be forced at the expense of 6th USA

[rocket757]

Politico Predicts U.S. Focus Switching From Ukraine To Taiwan If China Intensifies Actions

The question is ... and who needs some kind of activation now, except for minke whales ??? They will wait a long time or they will start provoking again, there is no other way.

[iouris]

Yes, you should switch.

[Paladin]

In China itself, a number of media outlets have come up with proposals to simply shoot down Pelosi's plane. Of course, Beijing would never do such a thing.

And what will happen? Pelosi Archduke Ferdinand or what? It is unlikely that anyone will want to pay for it with the destroyed New York or Washington. A mess is possible, but it is unlikely that this will bring dividends to the Omerigans, well, except perhaps for writing off debts to China. The damage could be much more serious. Suffice it to recall Afghanistan and the sharply changed attitude of the Arabs towards the United States

[opposite28]

Pelosi is like the American submarine Seawolf USS Connecticut (SSN 22) of the US Navy, which crashed into an unknown underwater object (presumably a sunken container) on the afternoon of October 2, 2021. submerged and surfaced after the impact, and then departed for Guam on the surface to clarify the nature of the damage. The equipment is expensive, but the crew leaves much to be desired.

[rotmistr60]

US may shift focus from events in Ukraine to Taiwan

As soon as it becomes beneficial to the Americans.

Whether Pelosi will fly to Taiwan is still unknown.

Big doubts that it will be solved. Pelosi, not for her age, took a steep start, ran out of steam by the middle of the distance, and by the end she fell exhausted on the American "exceptionalism", crushing her painfully. China has won another moral victory.

[Uprun]

May the old hag not fly to Taiwan, the rolls are not iron .... The can was already "well" made to understand - calm down the inadequate one and the anti-burn ointment has already been prescribed ... not to be confused with petroleum jelly.

[tihonmarine]

Europe just decided to die. The barn burned down, the hut burned down.
Switzerland (!) threatened China with even tougher Western sanctions than those adopted against Russia.
The head of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economics (SECO) said that this would happen in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
I would very much like to see such a quick suicide of the West as the imposition of sanctions against Russia and China at the same time.
Yeah. Chinese goods will leave the market, plus Russian gas and wheat - and hello to the Middle Ages in Europe again.
Apparently the time has come to isolate the golden billion from the whole world and see when there is no one to rob, how the civilized will devour themselves.
By the way, an interesting fact. In China, they have been making "Swiss watches" for a long time, and the original, for Swiss companies.

[Sergey Kuzmin]

US attention is not only on Taiwan, but also on Baghdad ... Everywhere, the United States have inherited, mischief. As everyone asks at once, they ask, but everything goes to this ...