Is it plausible that by focusing on a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan, the world is nervously anticipating the wrong war? One former major general in the Australian Army believes so. | OPINION by Peter Hartcher
The first sign that it’s started is when the world’s internet fails and showers of shooting stars fill the sky.
“Just as in 1941 in Pearl Harbour, US aircraft including fighters, tankers, surveillance aircraft, bombers and intelligence-collecting aircraft are mostly parked in neat, straight lines clearly visible from space,” writes Jim Molan, former major general in the Australian army and now Liberal Senator for NSW, in the opening to his new book,An American sailor is rescued from the sunken and burning battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941.
“The cost in human lives is appalling,” writes Molan. Xi Jinping has delivered his message even as the world still struggles to restore communications. Xi’s message to America, as Molan puts it: Then he can take Taiwan at his leisure, probably without the use of force. And dictate terms to US allies including Australia, now cut off from its great ally.
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