The founder of one of America's most important defense companies just issued a chilling warning that should stop you cold: Taiwan is not China's final destination. It is merely the opening move.
Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, the autonomous weapons powerhouse building tech for the U.S. military, made the terrifying reality plain. America cannot outmanufacture China. Beijing's industrial capacity in missiles and warships already dwarfs the U.S. annually. But Luckey argues that matching them weapon-for-weapon is the wrong metric. The strategy must be absolute denial, making an invasion of Taiwan too costly to ever attempt. "There's a world where they have a hundred times more ballistic missiles than us and we still have enough between us and our allies to deny them access to Taiwan."
But the most alarming part of Luckey's warning is what happens if Taiwan falls. He isn't just worried about Taipei; he is terrified of what comes next. "If they take Taiwan, history and the words out of Xi Jinping's own mouth show they're immediately going to hop over to Okinawa, part of the Philippines, maybe part of Vietnam."
Luckey exposed a critical detail the public is completely missing. Xi Jinping has personally targeted the Ryukyu Islands, the Japanese chain including Okinawa that sits between Japan and Taiwan, by citing 650-year-old archives claiming they were a Chinese tributary state. As Luckey bluntly interpreted: "He's not saying this because he loves wandering the national archives. They are constructing a national narrative that would allow them to convince their people to start with Taiwan and end with a lot of our Pacific allies."
This isn't theory; it is documented. Chinese state media and academic journals are already actively questioning Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa. It is the exact, deliberate pattern of narrative construction the CCP deploys before it strikes: establish a historical grievance, build public consensus, then move. Beijing has already sanctioned Luckey and Anduril for supporting Taiwan's defense because they know he sees their playbook clear as day. Taiwan is just the first domino.
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