U.S. group warns a potential conflict is brewing in the South China Sea

October 2015 – SOUTH CHINA SEA – There is a military storm brewing in the South China Sea and it will involve Taiwan, a U. S. national defense and strategic planning consultancy on Friday told a Washington conference. ‘China is maneuvering and building up its military forces with clear intent,’ Global Strategies and Transformation president Paul Giarra said. Giarra told the Heritage Foundation think tank that Beijing had convinced the U. S. not to consider the nation in the context of geography or military operations. ‘We are thinking of Taiwan as a political problem that we want to go away,’ he said at the conference, titled ‘Taiwan in the South China Sea.’ ‘The Chinese have convinced us that in order to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, all we have to do is keep Taiwan quiet,’ Giarra said.
‘The trouble is, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is neither peaceful nor stable,’ he said. ‘Taiwan, in its most appropriate military operational perspective, is a key geostrategic bastion and this is what the Chinese don’t want us to think about.’ Giarra said that China wants to minimize the Taiwan issue and Washington to think of the nation as nothing but a distraction. However, in geostrategic and military operational terms, securing Taiwan would be a great advantage, he said. ‘By virtue of its location, Taiwan challenges the People’s Republic of China’s control of its broad ocean approaches,’ Giarra said. He said this ‘compelling’ geostrategic reality had been lost in the propaganda, psychological and political warfare going on between China and the rest of the world.

This post was published at UtopiatheCollapse on October 4, 2015.