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Americans woke up this week to a stark reminder that the world is not getting safer: two U.S. B-52 bombers flew with Japanese fighter jets over the Sea of Japan as a show of force after a series of increasingly aggressive Chinese and Russian maneuvers. Tokyo says Chinese aircraft have even locked radar on its jets, and the joint bomber flight was an unmistakable signal that our allies are ready to act in defense of the international order. This is not saber-rattling for entertainment — it is deterrence, and deterrence is exactly what a responsible nation practices when confronted with a regime that flirts with coercion.
Beijing’s behavior has been escalating for months: Chinese and Russian bomber patrols near Japanese airspace, aircraft carrier drills, and stepped-up sorties around Taiwan create a pattern that cannot be dismissed as routine training. When an adversary repeatedly probes your neighbors and locks radar on allied pilots, that’s not an accident — it’s strategy, and it demands a firm response. Conservatives have been warning for years that appeasement and moral equivalence only embolden revisionist powers; we’re watching that prediction unfold in real time.
Japan’s new leadership has spoken plainly about Taiwan, and those remarks deserve respect rather than scorn from American elites who love lecturing others about diplomacy from their coastal living rooms. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments about potential involvement if China attacks Taiwan reflect a nation that remembers history and refuses to be intimidated in its neighborhood. Allies who are willing to stand and fight for a free and open Indo-Pacific deserve more than hollow statements — they deserve robust American backing and strategic clarity.
Taiwan has been tracking dangerous sorties — dozens of Chinese aircraft conducting patrols and simulated strike missions — and the island’s defenders are rightly on high alert. If we abandon Taiwan or treat cross-strait coercion as business-as-usual, we invite a hostile China to redraw lines by force and drag America into a conflict on unfavorable terms. The choice is clear: deter now with strength, or fight later on a timetable chosen by Xi Jinping.
Conservative commentators, including voices on the national conservative network, have been sounding the alarm and urging a return to policies that put American power and the interests of our friends first. That debate matters because sanctions, tariffs, and credible military commitments are the palette of strategy — not the wishful thinking of diplomats who believe nice words will temper a regime that openly proclaims territorial ambition. The American people should demand leaders who understand the gravity of the moment and are willing to wield every tool of statecraft to defend liberty.
For patriots who love this country, the answer to “Are we going to war with China?” is not a fatalistic yes or no; it is a call to action. War is avoidable, but only if we stop rewarding weakness and start investing in deterrence: modernize the fleet, streamline supply chains, shore up alliances in Asia, and make clear that violating international norms carries immediate, costly consequences. Weakness invites war; strength preserves peace — and that should be the conservative project in the years ahead.
Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who understand that peace through strength is not a slogan but a covenant with future generations. We should honor our allies, hold Mao’s heirs accountable for coercion and theft, and refuse to cede strategic ground to a hostile autocracy while the political class debates whether to look tough on cable news. The choice we make now will determine whether our children inherit a world where freedom still has a fighting chance.
