The U.S. military would have to focus on sinking Chinese ships if a war broke out over Taiwan, according to the commander of the United States’ Pacific Air Forces.
That’s one of the lessons Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach took from the scramble of military activity that accompanied a visit by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to the island in August 2022.
“You saw when Speaker Pelosi went to Taiwan, what [China] did with their ships,” Wilsbach told reporters at the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, on Wednesday. “They put them on the east side of Taiwan” — the side opposite China — “as a sort of blockade.”
Surface-to-air missiles onboard the ships would give the Chinese military the ability to create what Wilsbach called an “anti-access/area denial engagement zone” — a zone where its enemies might not want to fly because of the risk of getting shot down.
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