Xi’s China guarantees Asia-Pacific another year of rough sailing
WASHINGTON – The year2024 was rough and 2025 won’t be any smoother. How rough things get depends mostly on Xi Jinping.
He won’t be letting up, and he’s got a powerful military behind him—no matter the economic challenges facing the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
What does the PRC have PLANned?
Just focusing on Northeast Asia, Taiwan is in Xi’s crosshairs. He’s publicly said he wants it which means he’s staking his reputation on getting it.
Military pressure will continue against Taiwan. As well as subversion, espionage, and the opposition KMT-controlled Legislative Yuan making life – and national defense – difficult for President Lai Ching-te and the DPP leadership.
Will Xi attack Taiwan in 2025?
Only he knows, but Xi can attack anytime he wants. One shouldn’t think he’s two years from being able to do so.
Chinese bullying of the Philippines will increase – as the China Coast Guard, the People’s Liberation Army Navy and the Maritime Militia push to occupy more of Philippine maritime territory.
Meanwhile in South Korea, pro-North Korea and pro-China (and anti-American) leftists are aiming to establish a one-party state. This long-term goal seems within reach.
China encourages and supports this entropic warfare – tearing apart South Korea’s free society and eroding the ROK-US alliance.
The improved South Korea-Japan relations that President Yoon engineered are in trouble.
Japan is also on Xi’s menu
The PRC will be stepping up operations around the Senkaku islands and elsewhere in the Nansei Shoto, Japan’s southern islands, with an eye toward keeping Japan on the backfoot – or worse – when the time comes to hit Taiwan.
The Russians will be piling on around Japan too. Don’t expect Putin to become nice in 2025.
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