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Communist China Simulates Blockade Around Taiwan | Rudy Giuliani | August 5th 2022 | Ep 260
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Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani with Rudy's Common Sense.
Today we are going to discuss something that may, and we hope it isn't, a prelude to a conflict that is in our future.
Hopefully not in our present, but Who can tell with both the irrational activities of the CCP and the weakness of the Biden regime, almost anything can happen.
Who would have thought we'd be in the position that we're in now with regard to Ukraine, North Korea, and certainly not China.
Well, this all really began with what appears to be a mistake, or at least not a calculated strategic decision of the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House or the President and the Speaker of the House having some kind of joint strategy with regard to bringing up the issue of Taiwan.
It appears as if this is an unforced error.
Now there may be something behind it.
If there is, please let me know what it is, because I can't figure it out.
But all of a sudden, a few weeks ago, the Speaker of the House announced that as part of her trip to Asia, she was going to go, or she was thinking of going, to Taiwan.
Now, that is a very, very bold statement to make.
If she went, and eventually she did, It'd be 25 years since a person of her rank from the United States went to Taiwan.
Now, it may be a good idea to do it, and it may be a bad idea to do it.
It isn't a good idea to do it without checking with the State Department and the White House, no matter who they are.
Because they're going to say something about it, and we'd like to have the policy of the United States at least appear to be logical and consistent.
Well, the end result is she announced that she was going to go or wanted to go, and immediately there were leaks, first from, I believe, the Defense Department, saying that it would not be very wise, not very smart for her to go, not a good idea.
It could inflame Sensitive situations.
That was followed by more direct statements from the White House, and then eventually the president himself, who advised publicly that he didn't think she should go.
And they made all kinds of threats about what would happen, including suggesting pretty clearly they might shoot down her plane.
They might shoot down other planes.
They did appear to almost be like a teenager with a tantrum, I have to say that.
Now, given the fact that they have a larger navy now than we do, and possibly a larger army, I don't think yet.
Uh, considerably more people and, uh, nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles.
They hardly are a teenager, right?
I just said they appeared like a teenager.
I didn't say they were.
I am not making light of China's military capacity, which I think is probably the most substantial in the world, except for the United States of America, which I think is still true.
But the projection for the future is not a good one for us.
For example, we used to have a two-ocean navy that was capable of fighting major wars at the same time in the Atlantic and the Pacific as we built ourselves to in the Second World War.
With the growth of China's navy being bigger than our navy in the Pacific, And I think bigger than our Navy overall, although you can check that, we can hardly say that we're secure that we can fight a two-ocean war any longer.
And then they've made some very significant technical advances on us due to the bad luck of some of the jets that we were experimenting with that turned out not to be able to go as far into China as we thought from an aircraft carrier and jets they were developing that actually can go further out to sea.
So they've extended their ability to reach our aircraft carriers and we've contracted our ability from aircraft carriers to hit inland China.
Now, we did have a great advantage.
We had the Bagram Air Base, which was only 400 miles from China.
I think now that we're in this problem with China, you can see the absolutely unexplainable irresponsibility of giving up Bagram, which was a newly modernized airbase, one of our better ones, and we just gave it away to terrorists, which someone says and some people say.
Hard to believe $85 billion worth of arms in the hands of murderous terrorists.
But maybe worse than that, we gave away an incredible strategic advantage against China, an airbase 400 miles from their shore or from their border, which in the era of supersonic missiles, even hypersonic missiles and airplanes, It makes all the difference.
I mean, if you know anything about nuclear defense, and you've studied the Iron Dome as I have, you realize that one of the challenges of the Iron Dome is the quick response of 12 minutes, 8 minutes.
Which, although it is quite effective, everyone that has operated that has told me it could be 100% if it had more time.
Well, just think of the pressure we put on China by having a base 400 miles from them, particularly with the disadvantage we seem to be at right now with regard to aircraft carriers.
Having said all that, sounds like none of this was considered as it should be if we had a mature administration.
Or an intelligent administration or an administration made up of intelligent people who had the best interest of the United States at heart.
Who knows why Nancy Pelosi wanted to go to Taiwan?
If she wanted to go in the best interest of the United States, that would be unusual for her.
And it also was never articulated as to exactly what her reason is.
She's not passing any legislation.
She's not suggesting any initiative.
She's not trying to illustrate any point.
And personally, I'm a strong supporter of Taiwan.
Once she announced she was going, I was one among many that felt she had no choice but to go because you can't back down.
Question is, why did she say she wanted to go in the first place?
And did she know that her administration would be opposed to it?
Which even if you don't agree with puts your country in a very strange position.
Speaker of the House, the number three person to the presidency wants to go to Taiwan.
President doesn't want you to go.
It illustrates even more dramatically the fact that we have no strategy with regard to Taiwan.
I mean, part of the weakness of our position is that China has a very definitive strategy.
Xi Jinping has stated very clearly is to Dominate the world by 2048.
He wants to surpass the United States by 2048.
Will you keep that in mind as we take a short break?
Because that's quite a thing to keep in mind, and we'll be right back.
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Well, in the long run, after all of the back and forth and statements from Washington, where we have a conflicted policy, Both with regard to whether Nancy Pelosi should go and also whether we would defend or at least commit ourselves to defending Taiwan.
President Biden has several times said we're going to defend Taiwan unequivocally, and his State Department and administration has said we have no such commitment.
And has even gone so far as to recognize the sovereignty of China over Taiwan.
So we've got a split between Pelosi and Biden on whether to go to Taiwan, and we have a split between Biden and his administration on whether we're going to defend Taiwan.
Query whether an ambiguous position in a situation as delicate as this is a wise one.
The First World War is often thought to have begun based on a wrong assumption.
You basically don't want wrong assumptions in foreign policy.
That was a rule, actually, of John F. Kennedy.
But in any event, we don't know what our policy is on Taiwan, and China definitely knows their policy.
Both with regard to their goal to dominate the world by 2048 and eliminate us, and number two, to control Taiwan because they believe it's part of China.
Well, Nancy Pelosi went, appeared to have a normal, very well-received American trip.
I mean, it should be.
She's the first significant person of that level from the United States to go there in 25 years.
I'm sure for the people of Taiwan, for whom I have ultimate respect, and with whom I agree completely on their desire for democracy, and who I once had the honor of defending in front of one of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
And he walked out on me when I did.
I was very happy for them.
I still wondered what the purpose of this was.
And of course, China didn't shoot her plane down, which, of course, I guess you could assume they weren't going to do.
I hope you can.
And they didn't kill anybody, which I guess is a is a positive given the record of China.
But as soon as they left, I mean, as soon as as soon as I mean, within Two hours, I think, of her leaving, which would be the morning of August 4th, they launched Dongfeng missiles, and there was 11 in two hours.
And they were doing a live, what they said was a live fire training across Taiwan.
Now this map, which we'll put up for you and hopefully make it a little bit bigger than I have it here, shows you, first it shows you the overview of Taiwan in relationship to mainland China, Japan, South and North Korea, to the North, and the Philippines and Australia to the south, and then of course the rest of the Chinese coast going across to Hong Kong and eventually to Vietnam and Laos.
So it's a very, very strategically placed island, historically an important one, and And it began really as the refuge of the Kuomintang, which was the Chinese army that fought the Second World War.
And because of the heavy casualties they took in the Second World War, Mao and his armies, the Chinese, the People's Liberation Army, were able to defeat them and drive them to Taiwan, where they are in essence in exile.
Although they consider it, they call it the ROC, the Republic of China, whereas the Chinese communists call the rest of China the People's Republic of China and consider Taiwan to be part of it.
Taiwan does not consider itself to be part of communist China.
And therein lies the conflict.
The United States has the strange position of being an ally of Taiwan, kind of.
We recognize one China, but we don't recognize what that one China will be.
We are not committed to defending Taiwan, but we are committed to helping them.
You go figure out what that all means.
And that's why we have such tremendous ambiguity in our relationship.
Well, when we left, when she left, immediately they had positioned around Taiwan And in Taiwanese waters.
They had positioned themselves around Taiwan.
I hope you can see the areas.
And they shot missiles across Taiwan.
In other words, over their land to another body of water on the other side.
It's an island.
They did that for a long period of time.
I think it's noted between 156 P.M.
their time and 4 P.M.
their time.
So for roughly three hours and a few minutes, missiles, these Dengfeng missiles were flying over Taiwan, which I believe is the first time that was ever, ever happened.
Taking the risk that something could have gone wrong with any one of them.
Many of them were thought to have done tremendous damage to the interior of Taiwan, but thank God they didn't.
At the same time, there were at least 10 or 11 Chinese ships that were in Taiwanese waters, and they were being met by Taiwan ships.
And there were flyovers And when the fighters became too many, the Taiwanese put their fighters up in the air to protect Taiwan.
So we had a, not a battle, but we had, I guess what you would call a standoff.
China, this was an unprecedented live fire drill.
It, I said five areas, it was actually six areas that ring Taiwan.
And it went on, as I said, for three hours.
Just want to check my facts here.
The Chinese Navy ships and military aircraft briefly crossed the Taiwan Strait median line several times back and forth.
In other words, taunting them.
By Thursday, military vessels from both sides remained in the area and in very, very close proximity.
And Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi went on at great length about Pelosi causing this and her behavior being manic, and they thanked her because this now brought, they said, China closer to resolving what they were going to do with Taiwan.
At the same time before she left, she, Pelosi, pledged the U.S.
support for Taiwan And, and stated clearly and unequivocally that the United States and the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven would not abandon Taiwan.
So just to be clear that we have the facts straight, it was actually six.
live-fire military drills in six areas that ring Taiwan, with the missiles going over China.
Then the Chinese Navy ships and military aircraft were crossing back and forth across the Taiwan Strait median line, which means coming into Taiwanese waters, and they're being met by Taiwan aircraft and Navy.
and military and Navy. And I mean, really, if you wanted to consider this a blockade, you could,
because it would have been impossible to get anything in or out of Taiwan during this period
of time. And And as any number of defense experts noted, a blockade is an act of war.
But to keep tensions low, neither Taiwan nor the United States recognized it as such.
And China did say at one point that they were doing this to show that they were capable of blockading, they wanted to show their capacity of being capable of blockading Taiwan.
They've done things similar to this in 1995, but never at this level,
and never at the level of these missiles flying over Taiwan.
Now, this happens at a time of great significance for China.
So, was it exactly all caused by Pelosi?
Well, first of all, they're having tremendous financial problems, particularly property values are plummeting to nothing, and people are losing all that they own because of their very, very stringent COVID policy.
They have a very stringent COVID zero policy.
Xi Jinping actually believes he can wipe out COVID, which of course is scientifically impossible, but I don't know that science has ever stopped China from doing anything, including decent science.
I mean, they after all caused CCP virus and spread it around the world.
Now he wants to wipe it out and in so doing he's closing down city after city and coming pretty close to destroying their economy.
And so their property crisis is becoming a real problem and their economic slowdown Uh, from this zero COVID policy is significant.
So they have an unhappy population and they're coming upon their 20th national conference, which occurs every five years.
And this is the conference that's going to really make him the dictator.
He's going to get another term, which is, you know, have the constitution has been changed like they do in banana republics.
You know, banana republics typically have a two-term limit, and they get to the second limit, and they extend it, and they become the president for life.
He will now become the dictator which he really is.
He'll be recognized as the dictator that he really is.
As part of their attacks, they accused the United States of collusion with Taiwan.
There comes that word collusion again, which of course, we don't know what it means.
But I guess we're colluding with Taiwan.
If we are, this is the most ambiguous collusion because Taiwan doesn't know whether we're going to defend them or not.
And Li Zixuang told General Milley, who's, it's really impossible to believe that he's actually still there, General Milley, who was going to warn China if Donald Trump ever thought of attacking them.
It's hard to believe he's still there.
He was told there was no room for compromise on issues involving its core interests, including self-governing Taiwan.
Whether Miley said there are things you can't compromise with the United States because we're tougher than you are, I don't know.
Or he may have bowed his head.
Who knows what he might have done?
Or he might have said, remember I told you I'd warn you in case we attack, but we don't know what we have in General Milley.
Because no one's ever explained what that incredibly dangerous statement meant.
China, the Chinese communists routinely fly planes close to Taiwan, but this was, fair to say, really unprecedented.
Secretary Blinken did recognize, which is, it's good to see that some people in the administration are waking up, Blinken from a very, very long winter sleep and here we are in the middle of the summer, and he said, quote, that China is the most serious long-term challenge to the international order.
This is the country that his presidential candidate and now the so-called President Biden, you know, when he remembers that he is, said really wasn't much of a threat to the United States.
You remember that?
Remember?
During one of his moments of whatever, he said, you know, they really weren't very much of a threat.
Not to really worry about them.
I guess if they gave you 31 million, you might feel that way.
Who knows?
And Blinken is going to meet this upcoming weekend with with the Chinese and maybe get batted around again like he was during his first meeting with the Chinese.
But he surely doesn't really do much to defend the United States.
But that was a good statement that China is a big, is a long-term challenge.
That's what we describe a country that's responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans with CCP virus.
Tough language by Blinken.
About the toughest he could muster, I would imagine.
Also, just to complicate things more, of the 11 Dongfeng-type missiles, five ended up in Japanese water.
Which creates a whole new issue with the Japanese, who are going through their own change of, well, not change of government in terms of political party, but change of personnel.
But the party itself is a conservative party that does have a commitment to further militarization of Japan.
And I would think this would push them more in that direction.
Having their space basically attacked really does, I think, create an incentive for that to happen.
So if you take a look at this map that we'll also put up, you'll see that Taiwan was basically
surrounded. They were surrounded by these areas where the Chinese missiles, the Dunfeng missiles
were shot over Taiwan. And then five groups of them ended up all the way over here in Japanese
territory.
story.
And obviously that creates a whole issue of its own.
The problem that it doesn't solve, however, Now that this is over, and it's going to go on for a few more days of attacks, and I don't know if it's over, but it appears as if that's going to be the extent of it, another few days of this saber-rattling and threatening.
We're still left in the same place we were.
We don't know the policy of the United States.
Will the United States defend Taiwan or not?
When the president came out and said that, his State Department contradicted him.
That's a strange situation.
And he has left it that way.
Now it's happened twice.
So basically, our policy is a conflict between the president on the one hand, the State Department and our military on the other.
And now the Congress, because Pelosi developed a lot of Republican support for her position.
So it looks like we have two and a half different positions on China.
We've got Biden and Pelosi and part of the Congress that will defend China.
We've got our military and the State Department that will defend Taiwan that will not.
I really do think, as this becomes our single most important challenge, that this has to be resolved.
And whatever the cost of a clear policy, it's going to go a lot further avoiding war than ambiguity, if history is any guide.
I mean, any study of history would tell you that ambiguity Is one of the most dangerous situations when you're dealing with a very, very aggressive
In this particular case, inhumane, murderous, homicidal group of people, the Chinese Communist Party.
Well, as you can see, this has significant implications for the national security of the United States.
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So let's take up the last part of this.
And the last part of this is, and I delicately didn't mention it up until now, is the President of the United States and his family received a bare minimum $31 million in a five to six year period from the Chinese Communist Party.
First from the Bank of China, which is part of the government of China, and then from various companies, some of which actually are involved in the defense industry against the interests of the United States.
And then from an intelligence front.
Hunter Biden, who was the bag man, the guy who collected the money for the criminal family enterprise, in no uncertain terms described that his father, and it's right there in black and white, Hidden from you as much as possible by the crooked media, even now, made it clear that his father got 50% of all that money.
So the Chinese Communist Party has been paying off the Biden family and Joe Biden himself very handsomely.
Amounts of money that could be, at least that we know of, the largest bribe ever given to any president in our history from an enemy of ours.
I don't know what's happened to us, or what's happened to our non-existent justice system, or FBI, or Department of Justice.
But as someone pointed out, can you imagine if Dwight Eisenhower, or John F. Kennedy, or Lyndon Johnson, or Richard Nixon, or Ford, or Carter, or Reagan received a million dollars from Russia?
Or their families?
They'd be in jail.
Among everything else, the single biggest overriding problem in our relationship with China is we don't have a commander-in-chief who we can be sure is acting in the best interest of the United States because he's been bribed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Yep, he's been bribed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Make no mistake about it.
You look at that hard drive, you look at that computer, you look at the evidence in Schweiger's book, you look at the other evidence, that family has gotten millions and millions of dollars from our biggest enemy in the world.
And people like Blinken identify them as our biggest enemy and is working for a man who's received 31 million dollars, or his family's received, and he's gotten half of, 31 million dollars with one contract where he was gonna get an extra 10%.
Where he's listed as the big guy and identified by internal documents and witnesses as the big guy.
And the FBI hasn't investigated any of this to protect you.
We've got big problems.
And that's why we've got to win this election in 2022.
That's why I need you to keep coming to RudyGiulianiCS.com.
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Because who's going to tell it to you that straight, huh?
Who?
A few people, a few of my friends and colleagues, but very few others because most of them won't take the heat that's required.
But my country is more important than whatever they can do to me.
Our president has been compromised to the tune of $31 million by our biggest enemy and a country that wants to supplant us.
And a country that has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans.
That's intolerable.
We've got to make sure that we're rid of this government properly and legally, not the way they wanted to do it, by beating them in 22 and then 24.
So stick with us.
We've got plenty more.
And remember, we live in the greatest country on earth.
God bless America.
Thank you.
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