Gary Anderson
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Choke points were a key for the United States in bottling up the Russian navy in the event of conflict, but since the end of the Cold War, freedom of navigation had been assumed. All that changed during the Iran conflict. Both sides have closed the Straits of Hormuz using military means. Petroleum and natural gas products bound for Europe and China can’t get out, but Iran also can’t export those products due to the American naval blockade. Other than Iran, the nation that has been most hurt by the two blockades has been China.
We should be sending her a clear message: invade Taiwan, and we can do it again both in the Straits of Hormuz and the Red Sea. That alone would virtually ensure a cut-off of 90 percent of China’s oil and natural gas imports, a crippling blow to her military as well as her civilian economy. That is real deterrence.
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