In a war game predicting the war over Taiwan: China will sink most of the ships of the American and Japanese fleets
In war games scripted by former Pentagon experts that simulate a Chinese “invasion” of Taiwan, the Chinese navy managed to destroy most of the US and Japanese fleets.
In the details, former Pentagon officials and members of the American Center for Strategic and International Studies laid the foundations of electronic games that simulate China’s “invasion” of Taiwan, and concluded that Beijing could sink most of the American and Japanese fleets.
At the same time, as US Deputy Defense Secretary Colin Cale said earlier, the Pentagon doesn’t believe that China will attempt to regain control of Taiwan by force in the coming years, while the Ministry of Defense of the People’s Republic of China, stressed that the complicity and provocations by The United States and Taiwan will only push the island into a “disaster abyss” and create problems for Taiwanese citizens.
According to Bloomberg, experts believe that Taiwan will be able to repel the “invasion”, but this will lead to significant costs for US forces in the Pacific.
Bloomberg quoted former White House analyst Mark Kansian as saying: “In 18 of the 22 rounds of the game… Chinese missiles sank a large part of the US and Japanese surface fleet and destroyed hundreds of aircraft”.
The same expert stated that the United States lost 900 fighters or attack aircraft during the “four-week-old conflict,” which is half of the military equipment of the Navy and Air Forces.
In the early days of the “conflict,” China will also destroy the Taiwanese navy and half of the air force.
However, Kansian points out, during “counter-attacks” the allies would be able to “sink” about 150 Chinese ships.
During the virtual games, Tokyo will give Washington expanded rights to use US bases on its soil, and nuclear weapons won’t be used.
“Perhaps the most frustrating conclusion for Washington is that games with dire consequences are not even the most complex hypotheses,” the agency said in this context.
In this regard, Kansian stresses that experts haven’t yet played pessimistic scenarios in which China could “extend its control over the island”.
It is noteworthy that the situation has become tense due to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan on August 2-3.
It is the first visit by a US House speaker to Taiwan since 1997, making Pelosi the highest-ranking US official to visit the island in 25 years.
In response to the visit, in addition to announcing the start of large-scale military exercises around the island of Taiwan, Beijing imposed sanctions on two Taiwanese institutions, Pelosi herself and her relatives, and suspended the export of natural sand to Taiwan and its import of citrus and some kinds of fish products.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry blamed Washington and Taipei (the capital of Taiwan) for all the negative consequences of the visit, which Beijing opposed for several months.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry also announced eight countermeasures in response to the US actions, including stopping the scheduling of line-of-communication calls between military leaders at the combat command areas level of the Chinese and US armed forces, canceling working meetings of representatives of the defense ministries of China and the United States, and canceling meetings in the framework of Sino-US consultations on military security at sea.
China has also suspended bilateral cooperation with the United States on repatriation of illegal immigrants, legal assistance in criminal cases, combating transnational crime, drug control and climate change.
