CCP to Focus on War, Military Expert: Be Wary of Reappearance of Nazism

Chinese soldiers arrive at the Grodekovo railway station to participate in war games drills in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, Russia, in a still from video released on Aug. 29, 2022. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/Screenshot via AP

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has asked the military to “focus all its energy on fighting wars” while the United States cracks down on Beijing militarily and technologically, giving the world a glimpse of the threat of war. Carl Schuster, former director of operations at U.S. Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, warns that we should watch out for the reappearance of Nazism.

President Biden declared on Nov. 8, a continued national emergency to stop the threat of China’s use of U.S. capital to provide resources for its military, intelligence, and other security agencies.

“Through the national strategy of Military Civil Fusion, the PRC [People’s Republic of China] increases the size of the country’s military-industrial complex by compelling civilian Chinese companies to support its military and intelligence activities,” reads the White House Notice. “Those companies, though remaining ostensibly private and civilian, directly support the PRC’s military, intelligence, and security apparatuses and aid in their development and modernization.”

The Biden administration announced in September that U.S. technology companies that receive federal funding would be banned from building advanced facilities in China for a period of 10 years. In addition, new export controls have prohibited U.S. citizens and residents from supporting the development of advanced process chips in China.

Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) assemble during military training at Pamir Mountains in Kashgar, northwestern China's Xinjiang region on Jan. 4, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images

While the U.S.-China confrontation is increasingly intense, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is demonstrating an aggressive posture.

At the 20th National Congress in October, the CCP amended its party constitution to include the phrase “embrace a fighting spirit and enhance fighting abilities.”

Xi Jinping said at the Joint Operations Command Center of the Central Military Commission on Nov. 8 that the entire CCP military should “focus all its energy on fighting wars, work hard on fighting wars, and speed up the improvement of its ability to win to defend national sovereignty and security,” according to Chinese official media reports.

Xi May Start Attacks in 2-3 Years: Defence Expert

Carl Schuster, former director of operations at U.S. Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, believes that the CCP is serious about aggression in the South China Sea and in Taiwan, which should be a warning to the United States and to other Asian countries.

“He [Xi] has an aggressive timeline,” Schuster told the Epoch Times on Nov. 10. “He intends to be ready to do something in a hurry, soon by Chinese standards, probably within the next two to three years by western standards.”

“I think he sees an opportunity, both with respect to Taiwan and with respect to [the] United States and Japan. He wants to have his forces ready to overcome whatever barriers… He’s not just signalling to Taiwan, he’s signalling to anyone he thinks might be an opponent.”

“He does think the United States might intervene if he tries to forcibly unify Taiwan, so [he’s] urging his military to be ready. He’s telling us, the United States, and every other country, that he is pushing that military to be ready and therefore they should take what he says very seriously.”

President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference a day after the U.S. midterm elections, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, on Nov. 9, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

President Biden again said in September that the United States would defend Taiwan if “there was an unprecedented attack” by the CCP.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August triggered the CCP to conduct military exercises around the self-ruled island, with dozens of military fighter jets repeatedly crossing the center line of the Taiwan Strait and  missiles hitting the north, south, and east waters around Taiwan.

Schuster predicts that the CCP will escalate its intimidation of Taiwan next spring.

“You‘ll see larger exercises, you’ll see more air defense intelligence identifications zone incursions, you‘ll see more naval activity in and around Taiwan, and I believe we’ll see more missile shoots probably starting next spring,” he said.

‘Strength Deters Aggression’

The retired Navy captain reflected on the 1930s when Hitler asked his general staff to intensify training, saying that Xi is going to do the same thing.

“One of the reasons Hitler got away with so much in the [19]30s is there were people who felt, ‘well, maybe if we give him what he wants, he'll stop being aggressive,’” Schuster said.

However, in September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War broke out.

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) in Munich in the spring of 1932. Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images

“So the policy that we should be doing is: strength deters aggression,” he continued.

“You want him [Xi] to realize that any war he starts will not be a short, quick, cheap war. It will be a long and expensive one, one that he cannot afford.

“That’s the message you need to send. You need to send it by being strong.”

CCP’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Nature Revealed

In the 1980s, after the Cold War ended and the world socialist camp collapsed, Deng Xiaoping came up with a low-profile diplomatic strategy for the CCP to gain a foothold in the international community. Yet in the last decade, the communist regime has increasingly revealed the fangs of a “wolf warrior.”

In October, staff members in the Chinese Consulate in Manchester, UK dragged and beat peaceful protesters, and Consul General Zheng Xiyuan later told British media that “It’s my duty [to do so].”

In the same month, Vietnamese fishermen complained that they had been beaten, looted, and had their boats damaged by Chinese maritime police in the South China Sea. Nearly 100 Vietnamese boats have been destroyed by Chinese vessels since 2014, according to figures from the local fishing association on Ly Son island, Vietnam.

An airstrip made by China is seen beside structures and buildings on the man-made island on Mischief Reef at the Spratly group of islands in the South China Sea are seen on March 20, 2022. AP Photo/Aaron Favila

“China earned a lot of goodwill in the [19]90s by not appearing to have any aggressive intentions…but over the last nine years, geez, increasing aggressiveness has made many countries wary of China,” Schuster said.

In the face of the CCP threat, other Asian countries have stepped up their armaments.

In April, the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea were invited to a Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs for the first time.

When South Korea announced in May that it would join the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence as a full member, it become the first Asian country to join the organization.

In Japan’s 2022 budget, defense spending reached 5.4 trillion yen (about $38.4 million), breaking the previous practice of defense spending of no more than one percent of the GDP.

Schuster said the United States also needs to buy more missiles and more ammunition.

“We will be ready for a long fight if a fight starts,” he said. “We need to look at the ship building and how quickly we can build them…  Any war with China will be primarily a naval air war, so the [U.S.] air force needs to be built up.”

“We need to ask our European allies [to] do more for their own defense because we are no longer so large and powerful that we can fund a major land war in Europe, and fund a major naval air campaign in the Pacific.”