American intelligence authorities believe that Russia and China are intensifying their collaboration on military matters, including the possibility of jointly invading Taiwan.
China has declared itself neutral regarding the Russia-Ukraine war but often censors social media content critical of Putin’s war, which Beijing has neither condemned nor designated as an invasion.
Bloomberg wrote that one senator is particularly worried about a potential two-front war, asking the Director of National Intelligence recently how the Pentagon is preparing.
“We see China and Russia, for the first time, exercising together in relation to Taiwan and recognizing that this is a place where China definitely wants Russia to be working with them, and we see no reason why they wouldn’t,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Thursday in testimony to Congress.
Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota asked Haines about such a potential scenario during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He also asked the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency about the Pentagon’s planning for such a possibility.
The Defense Department has “become even more concerned about our joint force requirements in an environment where” Russia and China “would certainly be cooperative, and we need to take that into account,” Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse responded.
Rounds said that the “the bottom line is that, basically, if we were to have a conflict with one, chances are that we would have a second front,” affecting planning, equipment and manpower needs.
Communists in charge of China assert that Taiwan is not an independent country and have vowed to force them into the fold eventually.
Last week, reports revealed that Pentagon officials were concerned about China’s moves in the Caribbean. The CCP, through its Belt and Road Initiative, which was helped by Hunter Biden allegedly, China has gotten a foothold in the nation of Antigua and has plans to turn it into a “special economic zone.”
The Biden Family has received huge payments from business leaders connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
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