Losing Taiwan ‘disaster’ for US: intelligence reportDECLINE: While giving China more clout, technology and access to the region, taking Taiwan would weaken the US and remove the only Chinese-speaking democracy, it said China winning control of Taiwan would be “disastrous for the US,” while Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and the Chinese Communist Party “are not being held sufficiently accountable for their actions,” Air & Space Forces Magazine cited an unclassified US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) report as saying. The ONI brief, released under the signature of ONI Commander Rear Admiral Mike Studeman, reportedly says that the US and China “are engaged in an international struggle between competing visions.” “China is executing a grand strategy, and has been unified in pursuing it comprehensively and aggressively for many years,” the magazine last week citedBy Chang Pei-yuan and Jake Chung

Source: Taipei Times July 15, 2023 09:20 UTC