CIA Chief: China Has Some Doubt on Ability To Invade Taiwan

[rangerrebew]

CIA Chief: China Has Some Doubt on Ability To Invade Taiwan
.By Hope Yen
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence shows that China’s President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s military to “be ready by 2027” to invade Taiwan though he may be currently harboring doubts about his ability to do so given Russia’s experience in its war with Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns said.

Burns, in a television interview that aired Sunday, stressed that the United States must take “very seriously” Xi’s desire to ultimately control Taiwan even if military conflict is not inevitable.

“We do know, as has been made public, that President Xi has instructed the PLA, the Chinese military leadership, to be ready by 2027 to invade Taiwan, but that doesn’t mean that he’s decided to invade in 2027 or any other year as well,” Burns told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“I think our judgment at least is that President Xi and his military leadership have doubts today about whether they could accomplish that invasion,” he said.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/02/27/cia_chief_china_has_some_doubt_on_ability_to_invade_taiwan_884025.html

[Hoodat]

The biggest wake-up call for China right now is Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  The Russian doctrine that is failing in Ukraine is the same doctrine that China uses.

[Fishrrman]

"The biggest wake-up call for China right now is Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  The Russian doctrine that is failing in Ukraine is the same doctrine that China uses."

China isn't Russia.
They'll watch, and they'll learn. Quickly.

[Kamaji]

"The biggest wake-up call for China right now is Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  The Russian doctrine that is failing in Ukraine is the same doctrine that China uses."

China isn't Russia.
They'll watch, and they'll learn. Quickly.

Doubtful. If they follow the Russian model, it will take years of training to undo all of the prior training in the Russian model, and then new training in the new model.

[Hoodat]

China isn't Russia.
They'll watch, and they'll learn. Quickly.

The Russian (and Chinese) military strategy is built on zero regard for the lives of their own people.  Human wave attacks have zero downside as far as their commanders are concerned.  There is nothing to be learned in that regard.  But China is learning that this wave doctrine doesn't have any benefit either.

Supporting a war near your own border is one thing. Supporting a sea invasion is quite something else.

[sneakypete]

China has more loaded magazines than Taiwan has soldiers to shoot at with them.

Not only that,but it is and has always been a police state,and the leadership answers to no one.

Hell,the Chinese leaders would probably celebrate losing  a million or so Chinese troops. That way they wouldn't have to worry about how to food,house,pay,or provide medical care for them.

[sneakypete]

"The biggest wake-up call for China right now is Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  The Russian doctrine that is failing in Ukraine is the same doctrine that China uses."

China isn't Russia.
They'll watch, and they'll learn. Quickly.

@Fishrrman

That is correct. Unlike Russia,they don't want to rule the world. They just want to rule the Chinese part of it.

The DO lust after the oil and minerals in the Russian wilderness nearest to China,though. Virtually unpopulated and loaded with natural assets.

The problem with leading a slave state that size is you have to feed,house,clothe,and provide medical care for them. The population is used to and comfortable with being slaves of the state,but they are still human,and things could REALLY get ugly  if China had to stop providing care for them for some reason.

A "slave revolt" is NOT out of the question.

[Free Vulcan]

If they capture Taiwan they will control about three-quarters of the worlds chip supply. That alone would bring us to our knees, not to mention they make most of our stuff, and are close to shattering the petrodollar.

They could theoretically do all this without firing a shot at us.

Willing to bet they think we can't fight a two front war if we go neck deep into Ukraine so our resources are all sucked up there. They just have to wait till they think we are weak enough, then make their move.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

China has 1+ billion people to use for cannon fodder.

It would be just like the commies to spread disinformation about their plans to invade Taiwan.