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Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
This Is How Trump Should Interpret WWIII Warning From Top ‘Putin Lackey': Retired Rear Admiral
Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the FDD, joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the ongoing ceasefire talks between the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the escalating tensions between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Watch the full interview above.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'China coming for your wallets too': Explosive testimony at US House committee exposing CCP warfare
The House Select Committee on China held a hearing on May 15 titled 'Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions,' focusing on preventing CCP aggression toward Taiwan. Experts, including Gen. Charles Flynn, Adm. Mark Montgomery, and Kurt Campbell, warned of rising military threats and economic risks to U.S. investments. The panel highlighted China's coercive tactics, systemic corruption, and urged stronger deterrence and safeguards to protect American interests. Show more Show less
Time of India
4 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'Stop the CCP now': Explosive hearing at US House Committee over deterring China's Taiwan blitz
The House Select Committee on China held a hearing on May 15 titled 'Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions,' focusing on preventing CCP aggression toward Taiwan. Experts, including Gen. Charles Flynn, Adm. Mark Montgomery, and Kurt Campbell, warned of rising military threats and economic risks to U.S. investments. The panel highlighted China's coercive tactics, systemic corruption, and urged stronger deterrence and safeguards to protect American interests. Show more Show less
South China Morning Post
5 days ago
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
US' 500 military personnel in Taiwan an ‘open test' of Beijing's red lines
Washington's disclosure that around 500 US military personnel are stationed in Taiwan signals more open and substantial defence support for the island – a pivot from a previously discreet partnership that is openly testing Beijing's red lines, according to analysts. The disclosure, made on May 15 by retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery during congressional testimony, was the first official acknowledgement of such a substantial American military presence on the self-governed island. Taiwanese experts say the number refers to training personnel. It also vastly exceeds the previously known 41 personnel that were confirmed in a US congressional report a year earlier. Montgomery told lawmakers that the US military involvement was essential to training Taiwan to become a credible 'counter-intervention force' capable of real combat or complicating Beijing's military options. 'If we're going to give them billions of dollars in assistance, sell them tens of billions of dollars' worth of US gear, it makes sense that we'd be over there training and working,' he said. Days after the hearing, mainland Chinese state broadcaster CCTV took the rare step of airing commentary on Montgomery's remarks about the American military presence on the island.
The Star
18-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
Taiwan more likely to face blockade or economic warfare from Beijing than invasion: panel
Beijing is more likely to carry out a blockade or economic warfare against Taiwan rather than an invasion, witnesses and lawmakers said at a congressional hearing on Thursday, even as they urged the US to prepare for all scenarios. 'The most likely scenario is they're going to try this cyber-enabled economic warfare campaign,' said Mark Montgomery, a retired US rear admiral and senior director at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, testifying before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. 'Beijing will want to force Taiwan's capitulation through less drastic methods' than a military takeover, he added. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. As for what such a campaign would entail, Montgomery believed it would target Taiwan's financial, energy and telecommunications sectors, and involve 'malicious' cyber activity. Beijing sees Taiwan as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary. Most countries, including the US, do not recognise Taiwan as an independent state, but Washington is opposed to any attempt to take the self-governed island by force and is committed to arming it. In recent years, the US has grown increasingly anxious about a mainland takeover, with officials and lawmakers eyeing 2027 as a possible window, and pointing to more frequent People's Liberation Army sorties crossing the Taiwan Strait's median line as signs of growing aggression. Nevertheless, some at Thursday's hearing said that increased PLA activity did not necessarily indicate an imminent or likely invasion. 'While these air crossings happen almost daily, making invasion seem possible, a more likely scenario is a CCP-led blockade of the island,' said Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat and the committee's ranking member. Taiwan should stockpile commodities like natural gas, soy and corn as a way to deter such a blockade, the congressman added. And even if a mainland invasion was not likely, the US still needed to prepare for it, witnesses said. Beijing's 'goal would be to subjugate Taiwan without invading', said Charles Flynn, a retired US army general, but 'we cannot discount the threat that they pose by what they do with their air, maritime and ground forces'. Flynn, who served as commander of US Army Pacific from 2021 to 2024, warned on Thursday that the US must bolster its land-based military capabilities in case it needed to support the self-governed island militarily. 'For far too long, we've invested in exquisite systems to fight a sea and air campaign but left ourselves exposed where it matters most: on land where wars are won or lost,' he said. Meanwhile, Kurt Campbell, deputy secretary of state under former US president Joe Biden, testified that Washington should invest more in its naval capabilities to deter any aggression from Beijing. 'This is a naval theatre,' Campbell said, adding that America's answer to a potential mainland blockade of Taiwan would be its submarine force. More from South China Morning Post: For the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app. Copyright 2025.
