https://www.emerald.tv/p/is-china-preparing-to-attack-the
Defense expert Brandon Weichart warned recently that a new report by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intel network has admitted: China is ready and able to shut down America’s critical infrastructure networks at any time. This operation is called “Operation Volt Typhoon.” China has inserted “electronic time bombs” throughout our computer networks (using a weakness in Windows) on a scale never seen before.
Mr. Weichert believes that China is ready to launch a “Cyber Pearl Harbor” on America in order to disable the West’s capabilities — possibly to stop us from contesting an invasion of Taiwan.
. . . Over at Red State, Jennifer Van Laar was able to confirm last month that Dong Jingwei, the highest-ranking Chinese defector ever to fall into our hands, is indeed in the custody of the DIA and he has brought with him information “that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in addition to evidence confirming that the People’s Liberation Army managed the Wuhan bioweapons program (and others).”
Why is this defection important? As Van Laar reports: “sources told Red State that the FBI, the State Department, and CIA were intentionally kept in the dark about the fact that the defector was working with the DIA.”
Why did DIA hold Dong Jingwei away from the FBI and the CIA? Because “the fact that the FBI had a lot of this information from [Chinese virologist] Yan [Li-Meng] for more than a year and nothing to investigate or validate it makes it easy to understand why this defector wanted nothing to do with the CIA or, especially, the FBI.”
In other words, the CIA and the FBI are compromised.
There's 20 days left in the strategic oil reserve, according to zero hedge.
I would think maybe China would invade Taiwan first, after having significantly weakened our ability to respond (especially after having already donated however much to ukraine). Then depending on our response to that, they'll probably just continue the slow steady rollup that they're already doing.