When is this country most vulnerable? About the time on Inauguration
Day when the president-elect puts his hand on the Bible and raises his right
hand. I’m trying to imagine what could go wrong on this Inauguration Day,
especially given the bellicosity of candidate and now President-elect Trump.
Trump has made a lot of noise about China. No problem. But
then he doubled down by taking a congratulatory phone call from the president
of Taiwan. A week later he doubled down again on that by saying the United
States isn’t bound by the one-China policy, a policy that for decades says with
a wink and a nod that there’s only one China and its capital is in Beijing.
China considers Taiwan a rogue state. It considers Taiwan
part of China. Trump seems to have cast that aside. How might China react?
First, a time zone lesson. When it’s noon in Washington,
it’s midnight in Beijing.
I solemnly swear …
If I were the president of China, I’d move an armada around
Taiwan and at the stroke of midnight sail into its main port and declare that
Taiwan is part of China, hands down. I’d have my missiles locked and loaded
should there be resistance. In other words, I’d show Trump that there is a
one-China policy.
But, wait, there’s more than just China.
The boy despot in North Korea is ready to show off his nuclear
capability. What if he lobbed some missiles on South Korea? Even if the
missiles are not nuclear, consider the reaction? Our current secretary of
defense said on Meet the Press that the United States would shoot down any
missile aimed at it or an ally. Well, South Korea’s an ally.
Are we going to go to war with China over Taiwan? Are we
going to go to war with North Korea over South Korea?
…will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States.
And where do you think the Russians will come down on all of
this? Why, such a move by China alone would play into Putin’s hand. Throw in
North Korea and it’s game on.
Of course, I hope none of this happens, but I do believe
Trump is in addition to becoming the commander-in-chief may also become the
enabler-in-chief.
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