Terrifying Report on NATO and Taiwan/China Conflict
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16 April 2024 (Tuesday)
Terrifying Report on NATO and Taiwan/China Conflict
Taiwan’s European Community Must Escape Now!
SATIRE
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - My first reaction to this paper was of utter shock and then paradox after reading the author’s biography.
Published by the Rome-based NATO National Defence College’s Outlook (02-2024), “NATO and a Taiwan Contingency”, the paper was a severe let-down after confronted by the insane cover art.
The author, James Lee (李語堂) has so many awards and degrees I assumed that his profile photograph at Academia Sinica would resemble that of a psychopathic General of a Banana Republic.
But Lee is simply an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica.
Cover designed by Andreas Loff using Midjourney. I hope to commission Loff for my upcoming novel: Formosa’s Zombie Apocalypse.
Lee quotes such solid research sources in his footnotes as BBC News, CNA English News, NBC News, Reuters, Taipei Times, Taiwan News, and The Times (UK), that I was jealous my previous Jane’s and Defense News articles were not cited.
One wonders how much the NATO National Defence College paid Lee for the report. And how much Hung “Alice” Yi-Rong, his poor assistant, was compensated, if anything.
The report includes one terrifying map showing the range of China’s ballistic missiles that cover ALL of NATO!
Whatever the paper is about is unclear. It drools on and on about NATO, NATO and Asia, NATO and Taiwan, etc., etc.
Academia Sinica is the premier research and advanced educational institute in Taiwan, with a slew of high-profile academics that include Nobel Prize winners.
But Lee does not appear to be one of them; at least not now, or perhaps ever.