Members of Congress are slated to hold a war game on a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan, highlighting that “the enemy gets a vote” and providing a warning sign about the consequences of US deterrence potentially failing in the Pacific.
Beijing and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have long declared their desire to bring the democratic island nation of Taiwan under their control, and Rep. Mike Gallagher , chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, told the Washington Examiner that his committee “will host a table-top exercise this week to explore the military and economic ramifications of a deterrence failure, and, thus, conflict in the Taiwan Strait.” The war game will be held Wednesday evening.
Gen. Tod Wolters of U.S. European Command told Gallagher during House testimony last year that he considered it part of his mission to deter Putin from invading and that he considered himself part of an interagency effort to “deter and dissuade” Russia. Gallagher asked if the general agreed that deterrence had failed, and Wolters replied, “I can’t argue with your conclusion.”
“You know how war games work. You can pick the time — what does today look like, what does two years from now or what does four years from now look like,” Aquilino said. “So we look at all of those to ensure that we’ve got a broad view and we leave no holes in our understanding and analysis.” Aquilino replied that “I’m not too worried as it applies to our ability to deter and then deliver effective contingency operations if required,” and, when pressed by Gallagher again, he repeated that “I’m not worried.”
Gallagher previously held a Taiwan-focused war game in March with House Republicans at a retreat in Florida.
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