Jake Sullivan: Hold my beer
I really fail to understand Think Tank stooges. They are either ignorant or dumb. They don´t understand China, they think China is this country with a giant inertia that sit and do nothing, that is their version of deterrence. There is not deterrence here, they are going to provoke China into out build them, out number them, out gun them and out class them.
China usually respond to threats with more assertiveness instead of deterrence.
- In Korea after the US ignored the warnings the Chinese didn´t sit back and waited for the US to take the entire Korean Peninsula, they attacked and push them back.
- When Soviets broke with China the Chinese didn´t sit back, they build the fission and fusion nuclear bombs themselves also all kind of military equipment and even computers.
- When US parked their Aircraft Carriers in 1996 China responded with a more aggressive military modernization.
-When Obama announced the pivot to Asia and military containment of China, Hu Jintao and then Xi Jinping responded with
the biggest asymmetrical build up ever, with massive amount of diverse drones and missiles, the fastest symmetrical build up of the Air Force and the Navy and a more assertive policy in the Pacific. All of the still haunt the US today.
-The economy choke hold of Obama TPP was announced it was met with China own trade deals, the RCEP and the Belt and Road.
-When the US tightened the export controls on China companies, they didn´t sit back and waited for companies to Huawei to die, they didn´t waited to build 28nm fabs in 2045. They responded with the fastest and biggest semiconductor build up in China Industrial history. Basically creating an entire supply chain.
There is no deterrence, China always respond to threats with assertiveness and diplomacy with dialog.
