tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post8477277686547128743..comments2024-03-08T13:21:43.158-05:00Comments on Saideman's Semi-Spew: Trump Foreign Policy Thus Far? Not GoodSteve Saidemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-34315396909668681782016-12-08T11:32:22.132-05:002016-12-08T11:32:22.132-05:00I agree with your general assessment about the app...I agree with your general assessment about the appointments and lack of strategic moves with regards to China. I would say however, that China has been planning long-term to solve the Taiwan issue by force. Much of their military reorganization (which includes clearer lines of command, more focus on air and naval units) along with their A2/D2 (anti-access, area denial) strategy is aimed at solving the Taiwan issue. Moreover, some Chinese thinkers, see the US as having a ring of containment around China stretching from Japan to Indonesia. In that ring several key strategic straights like Malacca could easily be used to blockade China or deny general access to the Pacific. One of their main focuses is to break out of that containment ring, which they believe they can do through solving the Taiwan issue or in the South China Sea. <br /><br />Of course, this is all long term planning on the part of the Chinese, as they generally adopt the strategy of 'biding time and avoiding the light' as Deng Xiaoping would say. I think that a China-Taiwan-US crisis would be moving along regardless who was president, though I believe the timing would be different and up to China for the most part. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com