Behind Closed Doors, GOP Huddled To Game Out War With China ORLANDO, Fla.—While the potential arrest of former president Donald Trump took center stage at House Republicans' annual issues conference, lawmakers huddled Sunday night to map out the biggest threat facing the American people: an all-out war with China.
Any military action from Beijing would be swift and brutal, lawmakers who attended the closed-door security briefing told the Washington Free Beacon. American casualties in a conflict involving the United States, Taiwan, and China could total in the tens of thousands in just a matter of days, with China expected to use all military tools at its disposal to reclaim the island nation.
Members in attendance participated in a number of war-game scenarios, some beginning with a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and others a naval blockade of the South China Sea. Slides from the powerpoint presentation obtained by the Free Beacon show that lawmakers were briefed on 36 different hypothetical scenarios for a war with China. In some of the more extreme cases, the United States would face up to 20,000 military casualties in a single week—the most seen since World War II.
"It's going to be a bloody fight," said Nebraska Republican congressman Don Bacon, a U.S. Air Force veteran. "If we have time to get some munitions and aircraft there, we'd come out on top, but it'd still be bloody."
There is an expert consensus that China plans an invasion of Taiwan in the future, although exactly when is a matter of speculation. U.S. intelligence has concluded that an invasion could occur as soon as 2024 or by 2027. Tensions between Taiwan and the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the United States, have reached all-time highs in the last several years as Beijing has more forcefully laid claim to the island. The United States does not have a formal diplomatic relationship with Taiwan, but it has pledged to provide military aid should China attempt to reclaim the island and has provided billions of dollars in arms sales over the last several decades................
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