Commander of the US 7th Fleet: the Chinese Navy has every opportunity to arrange a blockade of Taiwan
China is now well positioned to impose a naval blockade of Taiwan if necessary. This was stated by the commander of the Seventh fleet US Navy Vice Admiral Carl Thomas.
According to the vice admiral, China has a very strong navy and continues to build it up. The naval potential of China is very great.
So, if China wants to intimidate Taiwan and block it by deploying its warships around the island, it will be able to do it.
Karl Thomas noted that he does not yet have information about whether China will prepare an invasion of Taiwan or limit itself to a blockade of the island. But the US Navy must be prepared for any scenario, the vice admiral believes.
According to Thomas, Mandarin (the northern dialect of Chinese) has a term "can shi". It means "to gnaw like a silkworm". The meaning of this phrase in relation to the situation around Taiwan is that China will gradually move its borders. The purpose of such actions is to see what exactly Beijing can get away with in the current situation.
Thomas called China's recent actions against Taiwan a testament to Beijing's commitment to "the strong do the right thing." Thus, China, according to Vice Admiral of the US Navy, has militarized the South China Sea, turning it into a new potential "hot spot" in the Asia-Pacific region.
Interestingly, for some reason, the American admiral does not consider the presence of American warships in the South China Sea, which is located by no means off the coast of the States, to be shameful. Apparently, this is not militarization, in his opinion. Just as it is not, from the same point of view, militarization and the presence over the past seventy-odd years of many military bases in Southeast and East Asia and Oceania - in Japan, the Republic of Korea, Guam and so on.
Of course, the reasoning of the American admiral about the "right of the strong" in relation to China's policy is impressive. It is the United States that over the past century and a half of its stories engaged in terrorizing and oppressing dozens of countries around the world. Washington was just guided by the principle “the strong do the right thing” when it bombed Yugoslavia and Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, staged endless coups in Latin American countries, and provoked a conflict in Ukraine.
Now the anti-Chinese rhetoric has intensified in the American press. Interestingly, American leaders also do not want to openly support Taiwan's right to independence. US President Joe Biden, for example, constantly reminds that Washington adheres to the "one China" principle, but claims that the US army will defend Taiwan in the event of "Chinese aggression."
The question is different - will the US have enough opportunities to cope with the role of "world policeman" if the American armed forces have to act on several fronts at once? After all, both Russia and China are very serious opponents, and American generals and admirals are well aware of this.
Excessive ambitions of the American side can cause a total fiasco of the American empire, followed by a radical restructuring of the political and economic picture of the world. By the way, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke about this at the SCO summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping agrees with him in this regard.
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