American authoritative think tank: recommends the White House to support China's "gradual unification". The US Department of Defense admits it is unable to "protect Taiwan". Shanghai releases the "National Emergency Incident General Emergency Plan". Is the pace of unifying Taiwan already spreading out?
Recently, in the new version of the US Department of Defense's "National Defense Strategy", there is not a single word mentioning "Taiwan". An authoritative American think tank, RAND Corporation, directly recommended the White House to support China's "gradual unification".
In the "National Defense Strategy" report, although the Pentagon still uses phrases such as "maintaining a favorable military balance in the Indo-Pacific region" and "building a strong deterrent defense" to show allies that the US military still has a "shadow" in the Indo-Pacific.
However, from the fact that the Pentagon has already admitted the reality of the decline of US power. It indicates that the US military is no longer able to maintain hegemony globally and can only choose to retreat and protect the hegemony of the Western Hemisphere. Therefore, the US military's "maintenance of a favorable military balance in the Indo-Pacific region" is just a matter of maintaining a "shadow" for itself.
Furthermore, recently, the US "Lincoln" aircraft carrier was afraid of being attacked by Iran's long-range missiles, and deliberately stayed 800 kilometers away from Iran near the Oman Sea, not daring to move forward towards Iran. This shows that the US military has no confidence in its aircraft carriers. If the US military is so fearful of Iran's missiles, how about facing the PLA's "Dongfeng Express"? Would the US military have to stay 3,000 kilometers away from the Taiwan Strait? Moreover, these small actions of the US military are surely seen by the PLA, who know them clearly in their hearts.
Just yesterday (January 28), Shanghai released the overall emergency response plan for sudden incidents. In the "plan", it clearly mentions "market entities can participate in the storage of materials, construction and management of emergency shelter sites, etc. Citizens can participate in risk hazard reporting, family emergency material storage, and related work." Among them, "material reserves, family emergency material reserves" are the most common and basic items in war. However, the "plan" does not explicitly state this.
Recently, the media on the island has paid high attention to the attitude of the United States towards "Taiwan". They also believe that the pace of the PLA reclaiming Taiwan has already spread out.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1855648611611976/
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