Grant Newsham

U.S. Marines Col. Ret/ Foreign affairs commentator / Senior Fellow @ Center for Security Policy & Japan Forum for Strategic Studies / Author: When China Attacks

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

My book, When China Attacks: A Warning to America, considers the multi-faceted PRC threat to the US and the free world, the damage that's been done after decades of 'non-kinetic' war, and what to do about it. It’s available now wherever books are sold: https://t.co/X4RSf9c7RK

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

This level of financial pressure on the Iranian elites should have been implemented long ago. It's about time.

[髙安カミユ（ミジンコまさ） @martytaka777]

米国がイランに対し新たに「絶対的孤立作戦」を開始。ベッセント長官は言った。「これはエリート層を直撃する。彼らはロンドンにいる親戚や、パリにいる恋人あるいはスイスにある自分たちの資金に会いに行くこと��えできないのだ。」指導層・富裕層・石油収入・移動の自由を総合的に遮断する。8月から始まった「経済的追放作戦」をさらに「絶対的孤立」レベルまでエスカレートさせたことになる。やっちまえ！

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@martytaka777 This level of financial pressure on the Iranian elites should have been implemented long ago. It's about time.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

Starbucks learned the lesson all foreign firms that go into China learn -- your days are numbered. Starbucks USA no longer controls Starbucks China -- so no surprise Starbucks is setting up in Xinjiang. A huge embarrassment for the supposedly socially conscious brand. The moral of the story? Stay out of China.

[Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon]

Volkswagen pulled out of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region after 12 rather shameful years.

German automaker’s exit demonstrated the near impossibility of operating responsibly in a region where the UN concluded in 2022, following a landmark investigation, that a “pattern of large-scale arbitrary detention occurred” in Xinjiang that could constitute “crimes against humanity”. Charbucks will not be getting my business.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

Starbucks learned the lesson all foreign firms that go into China learn -- your days are numbered. Starbucks USA no longer controls Starbucks China -- so no surprise Starbucks is setting up in Xinjiang. A huge embarrassment for the supposedly socially conscious brand. The moral of the story? Stay out of China.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@ProfShimada spoke with two very good people on China and Asian' affairs. Piero Tozzi and Adam Savit are both excellent.

[島田洋一（Shimada Yoichi） @ProfShimada]

「トランプ政権と台湾」の真実‼️

我々が訪米中に面談した���エロ・トッツィAFPI中国部長に古森義久氏が行ったインタビューより。
AFPI（アメリカ第一政策研究所）はトランプ政権直結のシンクタンク。
台湾に関する特に重要な部分は以下。

【古森】トランプ政権が台湾支援で態度を後退させ、有事でも防衛しないかも、という推測もある
【トッツィ】事実とは反する。米台関係は言葉よりも行動をみるべきだ。
トランプ政権による台湾への武器輸出は堅実に進んでいる。
新鋭のF16戦闘機はいま現在、供与中だ。
（高機動ロケット砲システム）『ハイマース』や（携行式地対空ミサイル）『スティンガー』など中国が嫌う���器も台湾への供与が続いている。
軍事面での米台の絆は強く、台湾の部隊が米国ミシガン州内で訓練中だ。

中国側は台湾併合はなんとか戦争をせずに達成したいと願っている。
その手段の一環の国際的な認知戦で『トランプ政権は台湾を守らない』というような政治宣伝を盛んに拡散している。
中国抑止では4～5月に行われた米比共催の大規模演習『バリカタン』の意味も大きい。
今回、日本が初めて本格参加した。トランプ政権の中国政策では日本の協力も超重要なのだ。

ーー以上、産経の記事より

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@ProfShimada @ProfShimada spoke with two very good people on China and Asian' affairs. Piero Tozzi and Adam Savit are both excellent.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@robert_spalding I'm afraid you're right.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

One hears a similar argument being made in the Asia-Pacific region.
https://t.co/NwlbPmboQb
@FredFleitz

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

Tucker Carlson worked aggressively behind the scenes during the transition to sow discord and undermine confidence in my dad, Keith Kellogg, as the lead envoy to end the war. It is abundantly clear watching his interview with Jacob Rees-Moggs (who crushed Carlson) why he did so.

In this one hour interview Carlson repeatedly pushes one overarching proposition: that defending other sovereign states against aggression is itself irrational, dangerous, and contrary to the national interest.

Carlson argues that resisting Hitler ultimately wasn’t worth Britain’s sacrifice, and if that’s the bar then virtually no contemporary European security threat could ever clear the threshold.

So he isn’t simply lowering the threshold for non-intervention. He’s raising the threshold for resistance beyond reach.

These are his core arguments:

1. America’s allies aren’t worth defending.

2. Ukraine isn’t really sovereign.

3. NATO creates rather than deters wars.

4. Military strength causes escalation.

5. Western governments are a greater threat than hostile foreign powers.
Resistance merely gets ordinary people killed.

6. The wars we thought were morally unambiguous weren’t worth fighting.

Carlson wants the West dumb, defenseless, and deterred. This is death of civilization stuff.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@mobbs_mentality One hears a similar argument being made in the Asia-Pacific region.
https://t.co/NwlbPmboQb
@FredFleitz

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

This man typifies the sort of South Korean that along with the Americans stopped the North Koreans and the Chinese during the Korean War and built the ROK into a solid democracy. The DPK / Lee Jae Myung types would have rolled over and surrendered. When Americans think of 'Koreans' they think of Kim Sung-hoon 'Koreans'. @captainkang38

[Tara O @DrTaraO]

Deputy Chief of Presidential Security Kim Sung-hoon served 7 South Korean presidents. The last president to whom he provided security was President Yoon Suk-yeol. Kim faithfully carried out his duty, despite enormous pressure. He couldn't abandon the president and the Presidential guards who looked up to him. For dedication to his duty, he's being persecuted.

Remember this hero.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

This man typifies the sort of South Korean that along with the Americans stopped the North Koreans and the Chinese during the Korean War and built the ROK into a solid democracy. The DPK / Lee Jae Myung types would have rolled over and surrendered. When Americans think of 'Koreans' they think of Kim Sung-hoon 'Koreans'. @captainkang38

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@robert_spalding With apologies to the National Enquirer.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

David Brooks' comments about the media's closeness to the Democratic Party are accurate, but they're also a bit like discovering gravity.

[L A R R Y @LarryOConnor]

David Brooks, NY Times: "Starting in 2015, we in the Main Stream Media learned that if you bash Donald Trump, the clicks go up, the ratings go up— it became the business model.

And we get to go to sometimes off the record dinners between journalists, columnists, and politicians. And I would say over the last two years, when you were at a dinner with Democrat politicians, there was distance between the journalists and democrats.

They’re politicians, it’s our job to keep some distance. In my view, in many of the places I’ve been to, there’s no distance anymore. And that is the problem for the media. We have to establish some distance from the Democratic Party. These are people we cover, these are not people we root for. We’re not supposed to be spin doctors for them…”

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@LarryOConnor David Brooks' comments about the media's closeness to the Democratic Party are accurate, but they're also a bit like discovering gravity.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

Starbucks opening up in Urumqui is one for Ivy League business school case studies - ie. for how much money will a company's management overlook human rights atrocities? (Of course, if Starbucks management was smart they would have stayed out of China in the first place.)

[Dr. Sari Arho Havrén @SariArhoHavren]

Starbucks opened in Urumqi. It makes you wonder whether the propaganda department has ordered that all videos from Xinjiang must include Uyghurs dancing.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@SariArhoHavren Starbucks opening up in Urumqui is one for Ivy League business school case studies - ie. for how much money will a company's management overlook human rights atrocities? (Of course, if Starbucks management was smart they would have stayed out of China in the first place.)

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

Well stated. One wishes FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) was still around. Should never have been ended.

[Peter Mattis @PLMattis]

This is very well put. This is why at @JamestownTweets we try as much as possible to give voice to both approaches (and there are some other methodological elements and other differences in emphasis) in the China Brief (@ChinaBriefJT)

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

@PLMattis @JamestownTweets @ChinaBriefJT Well stated. One wishes FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) was still around. Should never have been ended.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

The 2027 timeline wasn't based on much. US Navy Captain James Fanell's 'Decade of Concern' -- 2020-2030 remains the most accurate description of what China has in mind for Taiwan. Capt Fanell sounded the alarm in the early 2010's and was cashiered by Navy's perfumed princes. None of whom have apologized. https://t.co/A4617kNZxh @nypost

[Joshua Philipp @JoshJPhilipp]

I think this is accurate. XI purged too many generals and military leaders, and the regime's military has been exposed as nowhere near the fighting capability they'd need.

[Grant Newsham @NewshamGrant]

The 2027 timeline wasn't based on much. US Navy Captain James Fanell's 'Decade of Concern' -- 2020-2030 remains the most accurate description of what China has in mind for Taiwan. Capt Fanell sounded the alarm in the early 2010's and was cashiered by Navy's perfumed princes. None of whom have apologized. https://t.co/A4617kNZxh @nypost