China’s Xi is a genuine threat to Taiwan and Team Biden needs to wake up

Missteps by the Biden administration and fellow Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding Taiwan are making a shooting war with Communist China more likely and sooner than many think. 

Beijing is quite clear about its intentions vis-à-vis our position regarding Taiwan, what the regime considers a renegade province. The day after Pelosi’s recent visit to the island nation, Chinese ballistic missiles landed in six areas encircling Taiwan to include inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone waters, and not by mistake.  Precision guided missiles usually land where they are intended, a clear message from the Communist regime to the nervous democrats in Taipei and allies like Tokyo and Washington. 

Certainly, the three-day live fire drill by China’s Peoples’ Liberation Army is evidence that Beijing believes an invasion of the island nation is plausible.  Now the clock is ticking ever faster as that assault seems inevitable.  However, the key question is: What does this mean for nations such as the United States?

CHINA HALTS MILITARY, CLIMATE TALKS WITH US IN RETALIATION FOR PELOSI VISIT

Let’s begin by dispelling a key misconception. In spite of President Biden’s repeated promises to rush to Taiwan’s aid if attacked by Beijing, we don’t have a mutual defense treaty with Taipei but we do have an interest in that country’s lion’s share — 85 percent — of the world’s production of semiconductors. …