Maddox-saying “our judgment that we’d been attacked…was wrong.” George W. had provoked the North Vietnamese into attacking the U.S.S. It shows LBJ’s defense secretary, Robert McNamara, admitted to dishonesty about the Gulf of Tonkin-where the U.S. McNamara pointing out Gulf of Tonkin to Americans on a map, August 7, 1964. defense officials have reached similar conclusions,” she wrote. could face a “decisive military defeat” in a war over Taiwan, citing China’s increasingly advanced capabilities and myriad U.S. military without any assured outcome that America could repel all of China’s forces.” She highlighted a 2018 assessment warning that the U.S. At the very least a confrontation with China would be an enormous drain on the U.S. “Simply put,” she wrote, “the United States is outgunned. “Defending Taiwan Would Be a Mistake,” was the headline of a May 27 New York Times op-ed by China expert Oriana Skylar Mastro of Stanford University. “On issues that bear on China’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and other core interests,” Wang Wenbin, a foreign ministry spokesman, said “no one shall expect China to make any compromise or trade-offs.” “War Games: The Battle for Taiwan,” a 27–minute segment ran recently on NBC’s Meet the Press-quite likely a co-production with the State and Defense departments, according to columnist Patrick Lawrence.Ĭhina reacted predictably to the Biden statements. warships passing through the Taiwan Straits and non-stop anti-China rhetoric from Washington. But the “no change” claim contrasts with Biden’s meeting with Quad Alliance members, two of whom are equipped with nuclear weapons, U.S.
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