{"id":5848,"date":"2023-12-14T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:56:21","slug":"why-the-indian-ocean-could-be-chinas-achilles-heel-in-a-taiwan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2023\/12\/14\/why-the-indian-ocean-could-be-chinas-achilles-heel-in-a-taiwan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Indian Ocean could be China’s Achilles’ heel in a Taiwan war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to the article – https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/why-indian-ocean-could-be-chinas-achilles-heel-taiwan-war-2023-12-14\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary – Everyday China receives nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers to support their economy and power their country. The problem that China may face with this is that when crossing the Indian Ocean, these tankers lack protection in a naval theatre dominated by the U.S. A conflict with China over Taiwan, or elsewhere in East Asia, could evolve or escalate and Chinese oil tankers in the Indian Ocean would find themselves very vulnerable. “Chinese naval vessels would effectively be trapped in the Indian Ocean and \u2026 they would have little or no air support, because there are no bases or facilities of its own that (China) could rely on.” This could be very bad for China in a long term conflict like Russia and Ukraine have because they would slowly lose power and oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysis – China and Taiwan have clearly had tensions for a long time and the possibility of war is always looming. Taiwan wants it’s freedom and China is not willing to give up it’s control which is why Taiwan is considered an independent nation state. Taiwan is supported by America because of all their microchips and the exports they send out every year. America needs the microchips and Taiwan is a close partner because of that. If China and Taiwan were to break out into war, the control over the Indian Ocean, and in turn the control of China’s oil supply, could be a huge factor of the war. I think this is definitely a reason that China has not already declared war on Taiwan, and while China plans to be ready to attack Taiwan by 2027, I’m not sure if they will carry this plan out because they could be shooting themselves in the foot by trying to claim ownership of Taiwan again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connection to class – In class we have talked about geopolitics and the importance of a countries location on their national security. One of the only things keeping Taiwan above water right now seems to be their microchips, because of the connections they’ve built selling them. America is a close partner of Taiwan and in turn Taiwan has protection against China because of America’s control over the Indian Ocean. If Taiwan was in a different or America did not have this geographical space controlled we may see a much different world climate, with war between China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to the article – https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/why-indian-ocean-could-be-chinas-achilles-heel-taiwan-war-2023-12-14\/ Summary – Everyday China receives nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers to support their economy and power their country. The problem that China may face with this is that when crossing the Indian Ocean, these tankers lack protection in a naval theatre dominated by the U.S. A conflict with China over Taiwan,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5849,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}