Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) spoke out with a word of warning as part of a weekend interview that China is making use of all possible means of warfare currently available to them to try and forcibly take over Taiwan.
As the chairman of the House Select Committee on China, Gallagher stated in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that officials within the Chinese Communist Party were attempting to intimidate and strongarm the U.S. with their recent military exercises being carried out next to Taiwan.
Chinese dictator “Xi Jinping would love to achieve that reunification without force if possible,” claimed Gallagher. “And the fact that the Chinese were throwing a temper tantrum about the speaker of the House meeting with the democratically elected leader of Taiwan on American soil just shows you how sensitive they are.”
Gallagher, who is known to be a U.S. military veteran, explained that the U.S. needs to make some kind of effort to reach and provide Taiwan with additional weapons and the U.S. quickly needs to “be moving heaven and earth to surge power out to the Indo-Pacific before it’s too late, before we have another war on our hands”
Gallagher made the claim that the “most important” weapon from the United States military arsenal that needed to be sent quickly over to Taiwan was the “Harpoon anti-ship missiles” system.
“I remain convinced that there’s more we can do to move Taiwan to the front of the line, ahead of Saudi Arabia, for example, when it comes to Harpoon deliveries, as well as take the Harpoon missiles that we’re putting into deep storage, that we’re de-milling, and change around a few aspects of them so that we can deliver them to Taiwan,” he went on to conclude. “We could also explore licensing certain weapons systems so the Taiwanese could produce them domestically. But, at the end of the day, it just comes down to energy and focus and prioritization from the executive branch. We need the secretary of defense himself to get involved, to make this a daily priority for the backlog to get cleared.”
