Chance (11 May 2025)
"U.S. General Warns that China is Preparing War With The U.S."


 
Hello John and Doves,
 
In this letter I wrote about General Wickert's assessment of the Chinese threat.  He was giving a "briefing to community leaders at Antelope Valley College".  This is on a Youtube video.
 
Very sobering.  He spent some time talking about how the Chinese are in all of our critical infrastructure and we can't get them out. 
 
He mainly talked about how the CCP is massively preparing for war with the U.S.
 
General Wickert said that the coming war with China taking Taiwan will come to the U.S. - that war will be fought here on American soil.  He said the first sign that China has moved on Taiwan will be the lights going out here.
 
Very sobering video from his April, 2025 briefing.
 
Then I included a clip of Russia's 2025 Victory Day military parade - and Xi was sitting right next to Putin.
 
 
 
General Wickert's Briefing, My Notes:
 
Brigadier General Douglas P. Wickert gave a talk on how China is preparing for war with the United States.  This is a very recent talk...last month, April.
 
General Wickert said that the B-21 is preventing WW3.  He showed satellite pictures of Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Dessert.  China has a version of the Edwards Air Force Base in the Gobi Desert = Dingxin, People's Liberation Army Air Force Base.   Our air base is the biggest in the world.  However, the Chinese are modernizing and growing at a staggering pace.
 
They are actively preparing for something.  
 
It's clear what China's targets are:
 
China has a model of the Taiwan international airport. 
Deep in the Gobi desert the Chinese have targets shaped like U.S. aircraft carriers, frigates, destroyers.  They have railroad tracks showing missile tracking to targets.
 
It's clear what their intent is.  They are modernizing at a staggering pace and they aren't hiding this.  The scale of China's military growth is greater than the Soviet Union's during the Cold War.  
 
Back during the Cold War we could not match the Soviets in land forces, we invested in technology to counter the strength and number of the Soviets.  Stealth, GPS, precision weapons, etc.  The Soviets couldn't keep up with our technology so the Cold War ended.
 
The difference now is People Liberation Army is now a 'peer' adversary.  Their technology rivals ours.
 
Chairman Xi, who has an authoritarian dictatorship, ordered the PLA to prepare for an armed unification of Taiwan.  In 2013 he wanted a modern military.  Then in 2019 he said he wanted a goal of unification by 2035, then he moved the date to 2032, now he says 2027 - the latest year.  The growth China has made to that goal is staggering.
 
Taiwan was independent.  It has spent more time under Japanese control than Chinese control.  It was part of the negotiated treaty of Japan with China at the end of WW2.  This is not a reunification with China, it's a forced reunification with China.
 
China has 230 times the capacity of shipbuilding compared to the U.S.  One shipyard in China in 2024 built more tonnage of ships than the U.S. since WW2. We do not have that technology gap with China like we did with Russia during the Cold War.  In January China designed/launched a stealth frigate.  The Straits of Taiwan are very shallow.  These frigates are anti-submarine ships and China has the ability to make many of these.
 
In comparing forces over there, China far outnumbers the U.S. in all aspects of Air Force and Navy. We are vastly outnumbered by the PLA.  He shows a chart showing the buildup of Fifth Generation war ships, hypersonic missiles etc from 2025 to a projected 2027 and the buildup of force, specifically to resist the U.S military, is astounding.
 
In 2024, China had the largest naval operation in December since WW2 - the island of Taiwan was completely encircled.  We announce big operations years in advance.  China did this without the world knowing - it looked like it was THE invasion.  They just showed up and surrounded Taiwan.  Over 100 naval ships.
 
And just last month, China put three war ships between Australia and New Zealand and started live fire exercises. They told Australia when they started firing.  Commercial flights had to be rerouted in the air.  No early warning for this exercise.  Then the ships left and returned to China after going all the way around Australia - sending a very, very deliberate message.
 
So how will all of this affect the US? 95% of the advanced microchips are made in Taiwan.  We are in the process of making those here.  We are denying the export controls on advanced microchips to China.  Do you think Chi would have any trouble taking Taiwan now?  
 
The PLA is not only massively building up their military - staggering increase in their navy, air force, rocket force, hypersonic missiles,  they are targeting our critical infrastructure.
 
There is Chinese malware in our electrical and communications systems.  The first sign that Taiwan has been invaded by China is the lights will go out here.  The cell phone network would be down too.  They are in all of our critical infrastructure.  They have more cyber operators (hackers) than all of the world combined. 
 
The U.S. names these cyber attacks as Typhoon, dust storm, blizzard operations:  Typhoons are attacks that come from China.  Dust storms are attacks  that come from Iran.  Blizzards are attacks that come from Russia.  
 
Bolt Typhoon is Chinese malware in our critical infrastructure:  water, electrical, communications, oil, air traffic control.  We know they are there and we can't get them out.  We've known about this since about 2018/2019
 
Salt Typhoon has been going on since 2021 - this is 9 telecom companies - Chinese have access to their servers and all phones.  Including government phones, candidate Trump's phone records, VP Harris phone records, candidate VP Vance phone records...  We know this and we know the Chinese are still in the system - advanced persistent incursions.  China is very adept at doing this.
 
The newest is Volt Typhoon where China is targeting our cloud services.
 
He calls Xi, Chairman Xi because he was not elected.  We do not have a problem with the Chinese people.  Xi wants to be the sole superpower of the world.  We are trying to change Xi /CCP.
 
He presented two books "Danger Zone:  The Coming Conflict with China" and "The Avoidable War."
 
If this war happens - it's going to come to us.  The war will happen here.  It won't be just over there in Taiwan.
 
He is optimistic 'if you want peace, prepare for war'. We are preparing for war right now.  We have to be strong enough and prepared enough to change Xi's mind about starting WW3 today.

U.S. General Warns that China is Preparing for a Pearl Harbor Redux! - YouTube
run time 39:19
 
 
I have written several Doves letters about Chinese malware in the U.S.:  Wray even refers to Volt Typhoon in this article.
FBI director warns Chinese hackers aim to 'wreak havoc' on U.S. critical infrastructure
 
Russia's 2025 Victory Day Celebration:
 
And in this video, Russia is celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War in 1945 and Chairman Xi was sitting right beside President Putin.  There was even a North Korean military presence in the parade.

Putin, Xi Jinping and Others in Tears at Eternal Flame Ceremony on Victory Day | APT - YouTube
run time 10:32
 
When Gen. Wickert talked about Xi upping the attack year on Taiwan to 2027 and then explained how they are massively accelerating production of war equipment...I wondered if 2027 might be changed to 2026 or 2025.
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
 
Maranatha!
 
Chance