What Lessons Will Mr. Xi Draw From Mr. Putin’s War?

03/08/2022

I could imagine the ruler of China looking at the current travails of the ruler of Russia and deciding maybe he won’t invade Taiwan quite yet.

After all, going on the offensive is hard.
Defenders these days have a lot of lightweight smart rockets with which two infantrymen can take out a really expensive piece of equipment.
You can’t trust your military men when they tell you the troops are ready and rarin’ to go.
The West has a lot of financial weapons.
Maybe we won’t be welcomed by the Taiwanese.
Maybe life is pretty good right now without the hassle of a war.

Or, I could imagine Xi concluding:

Ha-ha, those incompetent Russians!
What a buffoon Putin is!
I’d never blunder like he did.
My eloquent speech about the history of Taiwan will convince everybody, unlike Putin’s crackpot speech about the history of Ukraine.

You just never know with these guys.

This is a content archive of VDARE.com, which Letitia James forced off of the Internet using lawfare.