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According to some analyses, Taiwan's energy reserves would only last for three to six weeks in the event of a naval blockade.
The US Navy is projected to shrink from approximately 290 ships to 279 ships by 2027.
China's United Front Work Department uses a combination of espionage and economic coercion to influence American universities, including through large, often disguised, donations.
A bill currently before the US Congress would force a divestiture of TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
The primary national security threat from TikTok is its potential use as a propaganda instrument by the Chinese Communist Party, given that most young Americans use it as their main news source.
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that the US defense industrial base needs to shift from minimum sustaining rates to maximum production rates for long-range precision fires and other critical munitions.
A failure by the West to support Ukraine would be perceived as a signal of weakness by Xi Jinping, potentially encouraging an invasion of Taiwan.
There are approximately $300 billion in frozen Russian assets currently held in Euroclear in Brussels.
The Chinese Communist Party's ambition is to displace the United States as the world's superpower and rework the global system in its image.
In a recent meeting, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping explicitly discussed the opportunity to destroy the US-led global order and rebuild a system that favors their own.
China's most likely strategy to shatter the US alliance system in the Indo-Pacific is by taking control of Taiwan.
A Chinese takeover of Taiwan would effectively nullify the United States' treaty commitments with Japan and the Philippines.