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#长文创作激励计划#6月10日, a piece of news about the United States attracted international attention because the Washington Daily News published an arrogant statement about the new U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Seriel Paparo, who warned China with a very threatening expectation,
He said that if Chinese mainland "invades" Taiwan, the US military will turn the Taiwan Strait into a "hellish landscape" and "respond" to Taiwan, the United States and its partner forces.
Serol Paparo's "intimidation" is simply laughable, will China be afraid of your so-called "hellscape" strategy?
Let's see how our army responds?
Response
Just as every senior U.S. official must make a "China threat theory" to raise his prestige when he takes office, so does Paparo.
Paparo is a highly educated person with rich experience in fighter flight and carrier-based aircraft landing. But when he confronts China, he seems so ignorant.
Paparo succeeded John Aquilino as commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in early May of this year, and at the time of his inauguration, he made a big statement that "he wants to ensure that the United States and its allies have the ability to win."
Many are looking forward to seeing China's response.
On the afternoon of June 27, the Ministry of Defense held a regular press conference, at which a reporter raised Paparo's remarks.
Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, responded that those who are clamoring to turn other people's homes into hell must first be prepared to go to hell first.
It's really domineering!
Wu Qian also stressed: In safeguarding national security, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has always dared to fight tough battles and can win battles. Other countries do not want to divide and split China and create "Taiwan independence".
Crises in the Taiwan Strait
In fact, since the founding of New China, it has been closely watched by the United States and Western countries, and there have been many crises in the Taiwan Strait, but the PLA has not been afraid and has always taken the initiative in the situation in the Taiwan Strait into its own hands.
For example, the fifth Taiwan Strait crisis.
On 9 July 1999, Lee Teng-hui, former leader of the Taiwan region, suddenly mentioned the "two-state theory" in an interview. How can the Chinese People's Liberation Army tolerate it?
In late August of that year, the Chinese Navy held an anti-submarine exercise in the waters north of the island of Taiwan.
By early September, the special forces and amphibious reconnaissance teams of the PLA's Beijing, Jinan, and Shenyang Military Regions assembled for the first time for a drill in the mountainous areas of central Shandong.
Subsequently, in the first half of the same month, the army, navy, and air force, the Second Artillery Corps, and the militia reserve units of the Nanjing and Guangzhou Military Regions of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) held a large-scale joint sea-crossing and landing exercise along the coasts of eastern Zhejiang and southern Guangdong.
Just when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was showing a posture of recovering Taiwan, the "912" earthquake suddenly struck Taiwan, and the PLA stopped all military exercises out of humanitarianism and to avoid misunderstanding by the international community.
However, the United States and Western countries have never given up on proddling Taiwan and interfering in the mainland's internal affairs.
At this year's trilateral summit between the United States, Japan, and the Philippines, the United States expressed "grave concern" over the commitments made by Japan and the Philippines and the three countries' support for freedom of navigation and overflight, the situation at Ren'ai Jiao and China's actions in the South and East China Seas, and called for a peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue.
Therefore, the spokesman of the mainland Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated at the press conference that China will unswervingly safeguard its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, persist in properly handling bilateral maritime issues through dialogue and consultation with the countries directly concerned, and resolutely oppose other countries interfering in the mainland's internal affairs and causing trouble for no reason.
The United States and the West have continued to make small moves, and even now they have released the idea of turning the Taiwan Strait into a "no man's hell", and the most fundamental purpose is to "use Taiwan to contain China" and want to use the Taiwanese to achieve the goal of depleting the PLA.
Paparo is just "mouth hi"
But will they really get there?
First of all, the people of Taiwan do not want to go to the battlefield at all to work for the DPP, and they want peace more than anyone else.
According to a report by China Review Network, the number of men serving in the military in Taiwan has fallen below 100,000, and there is a shortage of soldiers.
In order to expand the source of soldiers, the Taiwan military lowered the standard of military service in 2022, requiring men to be 155 cm tall and have a BMI (body mass index) between 15 and 35.
In 2023, the Taiwanese army will reduce the height to 152 cm, and the female will relax it to 150 cm, and the people on the island will even ridicule "catch the fat man and catch the short man".
It can be seen that the people can see more clearly than the DPP that every Taiwanese is just a pawn of the United States, and the ridiculous thing is that the DPP is still working hard for those who use them.
Second, Paparo's "hellscape" strategy is nothing short of utopian.
From Obama's "forward" in 2012 to Biden's "battle for the soul of the nation", the main thread is to promote the "re-industrialization" of the United States.
But as early as 2023, the strike of workers in the US auto industry heralded that it would be difficult for the United States to change "deindustrialization".
Therefore, in the context of the United States, there is such a situation in the United States' weapons and equipment: the production is low and the price is expensive.
For example, the cost of new missiles for the US military has soared.
In 2020, the average cost of each Sentinel missile was $118 million, and by 2024 the figure has become $162 million.
Recently, the United States approved the sale of "Switchblade" suicide drones to Taiwan, and the unit price of the "Switchblade" suicide drones developed by Russian experts is less than $10,000, while the unit price of suicide drones with similar performance developed by Russian experts is less than $3,000.
China is currently the largest country in the world's drone manufacturing industry, and Chinese drone manufacturers have more than 77% of the shares in the U.S. consumer drone market and more than 90% of the commercial market. In general, the production of UAVs in the United States is less than a fraction of that of the mainland.
Excuse me, what does the United States use to create a "hellish landscape"? Is the United States willing to take out a large amount of drone equipment to pay for Paparo's words?
References:
Red Star News: The U.S. military said it would turn the Taiwan Strait into a no-man's hell, and the Ministry of Defense responded
Global Times: U.S. General Nakedly Intimidates China: To Make the Taiwan Strait "Hell"
Huanqiu.com: Young people on the island refuse to be "cannon fodder" and resist service, and Taiwan media lamented that the number of conscripts has fallen below 100,000 for the first time