@committeeonccp - Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
βIf we do not have strength, if we continue to project weakness, we could find ourselves stumbling into a war in the Pacific which will make the current crisis in the Middle East and the current crisis in Ukraine look like childβs play in comparison.β β Chairman @RepGallagher https://t.co/MIJVwcyIPI
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The speaker emphasizes the need to address the declining balance of power in the Indo Pacific region. They stress the importance of investing in our own defense and adopting a strategy of peace through strength. The speaker highlights the logic of deterrence and warns that projecting weakness could lead to a devastating war in the Pacific, dwarfing the current crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Speaker 0: That the balance of power, particularly the conventional balance of power in the Indo Pacific, our priority theater is going in the wrong direction. We need to urgently invest in our own defense to do what secretary Panetta said, a democratic, defense secretary. We need to reestablish peace through strength. The logic of deterrence is actually quite simple. We all learned it on the playground.
If we do not have strength, if we continue to project weakness, We could find ourselves stumbling into a war in the Pacific, which will make the current crisis in the Middle East and the current crisis in Ukraine look like child's play in comparison.
