[Be wary of the repetition of the old tricks of the United States!] Chip = Oil, Guam = Pearl Harbor, China = Japan? 】
Due to the increasingly fierce Sino-US game, some people from all walks of life in the United States with ulterior motives have even begun to make analogies with the pre-World War II relationship between the United States and Japan. In particular, after the United States was stuck in Japan's energy lifeline at that time, Japan declared war on the United States and sneaked attack on Pearl Harbor, which also led to Japan's final defeat. Today's chip crisis in China is similar to Japan's oil woes.
Today, all circles of military and political science in the United States seem to have begun to create this argument.
VoA reported on August 25 that in the face of China, Guam, an important US military base in the western Pacific, is upgrading its missile defense system, and many military experts warned that the current defense capability of Guam is not enough to cope with China's all-round missile attack, and it is urgent to upgrade as soon as possible to reduce the success rate of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in retaking the Taiwan region by force.
Hill, the director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said Guam currently faces "evolving threats," particularly from China, including increasingly advanced ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, new hypersonic weapons and even potential threats from space that could simultaneously launch attacks from multiple different platforms.
Rao Yi, a senior researcher at the East-West Center in Hawaii, said guam is crucial in the taiwan region' emergency, and it is close enough to the expected conflict site to serve as a logistics hub, but it is also far enough that some Chinese weapons systems are difficult to strike Guam. He analyzed: "Guam is a politically reliable place where the U.S. military can operate because it is U.S. territory ... Guam is also the only U.S. submarine base in the western Pacific. ”
Davis, senior analyst of national defense strategy and capabilities at its Strategic Policy Research Institute, believes that a large amount of military hardware is concentrated in a small area, making Guam an important target for ballistic missiles and cruise missiles attacked by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He stressed that the United States must protect Guam from such attacks, and that the loss of Guam would make it more difficult to maintain U.S. forward operations and make it more likely that China would succeed in recovering Taiwan by force.
Knock on the blackboard: It can be said that under the hype of the US media, there has been a sensational new statement to "avoid a repeat of the Pearl Harbor incident". The US media use Pearl Harbor for comparison is quite absurd. Equating China with fascist Japan at that time shows that the intentions of the American media are sinister. But this fallacy does deserve vigilance, because it is an upgraded version of the China threat theory of that year.
The China threat theory has no specific grasp, and now this argument compares chips to oil and China to Japan, which may be more acceptable to the American people, thus intensifying hostility toward China, which is extremely harmful to easing relations between the two countries, especially the resumption of people-to-people exchanges.
However, think about it from another perspective, that is, if China can break through the chip dilemma, will Guam be safe, and will China and the United States have no worries about the opening of the war? So for the United States, is what you are doing again to repeat the same technique?
