{"id":77713,"date":"2023-02-03T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=77713"},"modified":"2023-02-03T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:55:35","slug":"marines-chief-says-deterring-china-will-take-everything-in-the-cupboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/marines-chief-says-deterring-china-will-take-everything-in-the-cupboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines chief says deterring China will take \u2018everything in the cupboard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deterring an aggressive China will take creative use of all the art, science, diplomacy and other capabilities the United States and Australia can muster, says the general commanding the US Marines.<\/p>\n

In a discussion at ASPI, US Marine Corps Commandant David Berger notes that \u2018we haven\u2019t been in a competition at this level since I was a kid.\u2019<\/p>\n

On the threat posed by China to Taiwan, Berger\u2019s view is that it is going to take \u2018everything in the cupboard\u2019 to prevent a conflict. \u2018When the other side has stated openly: \u201cWe will do this if they don\u2019t voluntarily reintegrate with China, if Taiwan doesn\u2019t come back, then we have no choice\u201d, then we\u2019d better look in the cupboard and bring out everything and make sure it\u2019s meshed together. And then mesh all of our tools with all of your tools and figure out how to use all of that to prevent a conflict,\u2019 Berger says.<\/p>\n

\u2018If there\u2019s art in there, science in there, a lot of diplomacy in there, we\u2019ll need all aspects of it. We\u2019re pretty capable. Both countries have done this before, and we will do it again. It would be hard to imagine that\u2019s possible if we were starting from scratch, but because we\u2019ve got 100 years working together this is all possible.\u2019<\/p>\n

Later Berger tells The Strategist<\/em> the US and Australia must be able to deter a nation from carrying out damaging action, short of open warfare, in the so-called \u2018grey zone\u2019. There, conventional deterrence will not be enough because there\u2019s not an open conflict, but there\u2019s definitely a competition going on, he says.<\/p>\n