Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is a gross intervention to China's internal affairs. It gravely undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously trampling on the one-China principle.
Her visit indicates the fundamental change of the US policy toward China. The US regards that its one-China policy has already outlived its usefulness.
Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is just the beginning. The US wants to end the one-China policy and have Taiwan armed with US weapons even more. The US wants to destabilize the East Asia.
There are two key persons who are engineering and advancing this destabilizing development. They are current US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
What is the commonality between Austin and Esper? Both of them have been working for Raytheon, the world's largest missile manufacture. Austin was a member of board of directors of Raytheon. Esper was a vice president of governmental relations for Raytheon.
Mark Esper, former US Defense Secretary under Trump administration, is spearheading the end of the US's one-China policy. He visited Taiwan and met with Tsai Ing-wen immediately before Pelosi's visit and made the following statement.
//Quote//
The United States’ “One China” policy has “outlived its usefulness,” former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday in Taipei, hours before another U.S. warship passed through the Taiwan Strait.
Leading a delegation from the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council, Esper met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen on Tuesday. He called China the “greatest challenge facing the democracies of the West” and said he personally believed it was time to “move away from strategic ambiguity.”
“If there's one issue that unites politicians in Washington, D.C., it is the view that China is a strategic challenge for our country, and that Taiwan is a good friend that we must support and defend,” Esper said.
//Unquote// [1]
Before taking the Trump administration job, Esper worked as vice president of governmental relations for Raytheon from 2010 to 2017.
Raytheon is one of the top 3 Defense contractors of the US along with Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Raytheon is a core component of the US military industrial complex.
Missiles manufactured by Raytheon are as follows:
・Active Denial System non-lethal millimeter wave weapon
・AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile
・AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missile
・AGM-129 ACM air-to-surface missile
・AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon air-to-surface glide bomb
・AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile
・AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile
・RIM-7 Sea Sparrow naval surface-to-air missile
・AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile
・AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile
・AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile
・AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for Navy ships
・AN/TPY-2 radar for the THAAD missile defense system
・AN/AQS20C Mine hunting sonar suite
・AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS)
・BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile
・BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile
・Coyote unmanned aerial system
・Extended Range Guided Munition[6]
・Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle anti-ICBM system
・FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile
・FIM-92 Stinger person-portable air defense system surface-to-air missile
・M982 Excalibur guided artillery round
・MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile
・MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
・Paveway laser-guided bomb
・Phalanx CIWS naval anti-missile defense system
・RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile naval surface-to-air missile
・RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile naval surface-to-air missile
・Standard Missile family of naval missiles
RIM-66 Standard
RIM-67 Standard
RIM-161 Standard Missile 3
RIM-174 Standard ERAM
・SAM-N-2 Lark
Raytheon's business model is quite simple. It is as follows:
【Destabilize a certain region】
↓
【Create demands for missiles】
↓
【Sell as much missiles as possible】
Raytheon is planning to destabilize the East Asia and, thereby, sell as much missiles as possible to Indo-Pacific countries including Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, India and so on.
Raytheon is a major driving force that is destabilizing the East Asia.
China already imposed sanctions against Lockheed Martin and Raytheon over arms sales to Taiwan in 2019, 2020 and February 2022. [2]
But, what Raytheon is doing is not just selling weapons to Taiwan, following the decision of the US government. Actually, it is rather Raytheon that is the driving force to destabilize the East Asia, using current and former defense secretaries, so that the US government has no choice but to allow arms sales to various countries.
Thus, China should dramatically intensify sanctions against Raytheon.
China's sanctions can target not only Raytheon but the broad business entities and people who are doing businesses with and for Raytheon as well, including suppliers, banks, organizations, individuals, government officials and politicians. Such sanctions would make Raytheon isolated.
Raytheon has its agents not only in the federal government level but state government level. China can target state level politicians too.
The form of sanctions can be banning entry into China, reducing business volumes, cancelling some contracts, restrictions on the fields of businesses in China, freezing assets and so on.
China can research what rare metals Raytheon needs in order to manufacture missiles and impose sanctions to its suppliers of such metals.
China can find Raytheon's weak points and attack them. Unlike the US government and the US military forces, Raytheon, being a private company, is vulnerable to attack. Its defense is weak.
Also, China can ask BRICS plus to impose sanctions against Raytheon.
By intensifying sanctions against Raytheon, China can undermine the driving force itself that is destabilizing the East Asia, not mere its agents and puppets.
Thank you.
References:
(1) "Navy transits Taiwan Strait as Esper in Taipei calls for end to ‘One China’ policy", July 20th 2022, Stars and Stripes
(2) "Beijing sanctions Lockheed, Raytheon again over Taiwan arms sales", February 21st 2022, Reuters
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect nor represent the policy or position of any government, party, or organization.
Her visit indicates the fundamental change of the US policy toward China. The US regards that its one-China policy has already outlived its usefulness.
Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is just the beginning. The US wants to end the one-China policy and have Taiwan armed with US weapons even more. The US wants to destabilize the East Asia.
There are two key persons who are engineering and advancing this destabilizing development. They are current US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
What is the commonality between Austin and Esper? Both of them have been working for Raytheon, the world's largest missile manufacture. Austin was a member of board of directors of Raytheon. Esper was a vice president of governmental relations for Raytheon.
Mark Esper, former US Defense Secretary under Trump administration, is spearheading the end of the US's one-China policy. He visited Taiwan and met with Tsai Ing-wen immediately before Pelosi's visit and made the following statement.
//Quote//
The United States’ “One China” policy has “outlived its usefulness,” former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday in Taipei, hours before another U.S. warship passed through the Taiwan Strait.
Leading a delegation from the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council, Esper met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen on Tuesday. He called China the “greatest challenge facing the democracies of the West” and said he personally believed it was time to “move away from strategic ambiguity.”
“If there's one issue that unites politicians in Washington, D.C., it is the view that China is a strategic challenge for our country, and that Taiwan is a good friend that we must support and defend,” Esper said.
//Unquote// [1]
Before taking the Trump administration job, Esper worked as vice president of governmental relations for Raytheon from 2010 to 2017.
Raytheon is one of the top 3 Defense contractors of the US along with Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Raytheon is a core component of the US military industrial complex.
Missiles manufactured by Raytheon are as follows:
・Active Denial System non-lethal millimeter wave weapon
・AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile
・AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missile
・AGM-129 ACM air-to-surface missile
・AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon air-to-surface glide bomb
・AGM-176 Griffin air-to-surface missile
・AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile
・RIM-7 Sea Sparrow naval surface-to-air missile
・AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile
・AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile
・AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile
・AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for Navy ships
・AN/TPY-2 radar for the THAAD missile defense system
・AN/AQS20C Mine hunting sonar suite
・AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS)
・BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile
・BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile
・Coyote unmanned aerial system
・Extended Range Guided Munition[6]
・Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle anti-ICBM system
・FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile
・FIM-92 Stinger person-portable air defense system surface-to-air missile
・M982 Excalibur guided artillery round
・MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile
・MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
・Paveway laser-guided bomb
・Phalanx CIWS naval anti-missile defense system
・RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile naval surface-to-air missile
・RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile naval surface-to-air missile
・Standard Missile family of naval missiles
RIM-66 Standard
RIM-67 Standard
RIM-161 Standard Missile 3
RIM-174 Standard ERAM
・SAM-N-2 Lark
Raytheon's business model is quite simple. It is as follows:
【Destabilize a certain region】
↓
【Create demands for missiles】
↓
【Sell as much missiles as possible】
Raytheon is planning to destabilize the East Asia and, thereby, sell as much missiles as possible to Indo-Pacific countries including Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, India and so on.
Raytheon is a major driving force that is destabilizing the East Asia.
China already imposed sanctions against Lockheed Martin and Raytheon over arms sales to Taiwan in 2019, 2020 and February 2022. [2]
But, what Raytheon is doing is not just selling weapons to Taiwan, following the decision of the US government. Actually, it is rather Raytheon that is the driving force to destabilize the East Asia, using current and former defense secretaries, so that the US government has no choice but to allow arms sales to various countries.
Thus, China should dramatically intensify sanctions against Raytheon.
China's sanctions can target not only Raytheon but the broad business entities and people who are doing businesses with and for Raytheon as well, including suppliers, banks, organizations, individuals, government officials and politicians. Such sanctions would make Raytheon isolated.
Raytheon has its agents not only in the federal government level but state government level. China can target state level politicians too.
The form of sanctions can be banning entry into China, reducing business volumes, cancelling some contracts, restrictions on the fields of businesses in China, freezing assets and so on.
China can research what rare metals Raytheon needs in order to manufacture missiles and impose sanctions to its suppliers of such metals.
China can find Raytheon's weak points and attack them. Unlike the US government and the US military forces, Raytheon, being a private company, is vulnerable to attack. Its defense is weak.
Also, China can ask BRICS plus to impose sanctions against Raytheon.
By intensifying sanctions against Raytheon, China can undermine the driving force itself that is destabilizing the East Asia, not mere its agents and puppets.
Thank you.
References:
(1) "Navy transits Taiwan Strait as Esper in Taipei calls for end to ‘One China’ policy", July 20th 2022, Stars and Stripes
(2) "Beijing sanctions Lockheed, Raytheon again over Taiwan arms sales", February 21st 2022, Reuters
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect nor represent the policy or position of any government, party, or organization.