OPINION:
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte swears at President Obama for surrender of much Asia to Red China. After an eight-year legacy of weakness, China, Russia and rogue nations are advancing against America and our allies around the globe. To be great again the United States should withdraw from the now China-led, sham Six Party Talks, along with the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. The treaty bars the United States from deploying badly needed deterrent, medium and intermediate, range ballistic missiles. The missiles are needed to counter the dangerous Communist China’s actions in the South China Sea which can bring possible war in Asia.
It is high time to tell Beijing to dismantle its new bases in the Spratly Islands, which, if not stopped, will soon host Chinese combat aircraft, anti-ship and long-range missiles. Also, the Beijing base construction on the Scarborough Shoal close to the Philippines, should be met by deterrent Mutual Defense Treaty U.S. and Philippine ready forces. These forces should get a dedicated Wing of U.S. Aircraft and 200 ATACMS tactical missiles.
At the same time, in Taiwan help is badly needed for its indigenous submarine program and the acquisition of thousands of inexpensive MALD long-range attack missiles to keep the PLA from attempting an amphibious invasion. In the East China Sea, after four years of Chinese bullying of Japan, the United States should applaud Japan’s Sakashima Islands Navy and Marine reinforcements and offer to double the number of U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 aircraft on Okinawa from 12 to 24. In addition, Washington should urge Tokyo to buy more MV-22s and F-35 fighter aircraft. In North Korea, the United States. should demand that Beijing withdraw all the large nuclear missile transport trucks it provided for rapid hiding of North Korean KN-08/KN-14 nuclear intercontinental missiles, which can reach the United States. With threats rising against the United States around the world, Congress must fully fund and make rapidly operational the proven Ground-based Midcourse Defense Missiles which have been successfully tested and should be made available to our Armed Forces to defend our country.
LT. COL. DOMINIK GEORGE NARGELE
U.S. Marine Corps (retired)
Arlington
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