Monday, July 07, 2025

NATO Chief Predicts China's Plan For Taiwan

If China invades Taiwan, Beijing will enlist Russia's help to tie up NATO forces in Europe, the alliance's top official has said.

Why It Matters: China and Russia signed a "no limits partnership" just ahead of Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine in early 2022.

Western officials say Chinese assistance is key to propping up Russia's invasion of its neighbor, but Beijing has repeatedly said it is not a party to the conflict.

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The war in Ukraine has brought international concerns over Beijing's desire to bring Taiwan under its control into sharper focus, and China " a military powerhouse " has held large-scale drills around the island in recent years.

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"There is an increasing realization that if China made a move against Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping "would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Rutte has previously branded Putin the Chinese president's subordinate.

Xi would tell the Kremlin leader that Russia needs to "keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO territory," Rutte told The New York Times.

"That is most likely the way this will progress." he added."

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I still think that Xi, Vlad, and their Orange Pekinese in the US have divvied up the World between themselves... which explains Trump's desires on Canada and Greenland. Not to mention Panama, Cuba, most of Central America.

Vlad gets Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Finland, etc. Xi gets Taiwan, various islands and nations in the Indo-China waters. Hawaii, if he wants it; DJT will give him that Blue State.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 03:51 PM

It looks to me as if China has been looking at Pres Trump's apparent acquiescence towards Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, and then China casting an aggressive eye towards Taiwan.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 05:55 PM

Related?

Russian military to train Chinese troops, Ukrainian media outlet says (June 26, 2025)
www3.nhk.or.jp

... A Ukrainian media outlet has reported the Russian military is expected to train about 600 Chinese troops at armed forces bases and military centers in Russia as early as this year.

Kyiv Post quoted sources in Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Directorate on Tuesday.

A source told the media, "The Kremlin has decided to allow Chinese military personnel to study and adopt the combat experience Russia has gained in its war against Ukraine."

The training is reportedly aimed at preparing tank operators, artillerymen, air defense specialists and others in the Chinese military to counter Western weaponry.

The source said, "Such decisions by Moscow and Beijing clearly illustrate the Russian regime's intention to align with China in a course of global confrontation with the West." ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 06:01 PM

Wonder if, "How to Cannibalize Your Troops" is part of the training Russia will give the Chinese?

Or maybe the, "How to Sustain a Million Casualties Without Even Trying".

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 06:27 PM

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