U.S. Preparing to Evacuate American Citizens Living in Taiwan?

According to a report from The Messenger, the U.S. government is making preparations to evacuate American citizens living in Taiwan.

Sources reportedly told the outlet plans have been underway for months, but “it’s heated up over the past two months or so.”

An anonymous senior U.S. intelligence official reportedly told the outlet a “heightened level of tension” accelerated the evacuation plans.

With the devious nature of U.S. intelligence agencies, you have to wonder if these are legitimate claims or the latest fearmongering attempts.

Could a false flag to ‘justify’ war be imminent?

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The U.S. has intensified plans to evacuate Americans living in Taiwan, The Messenger reported. https://t.co/r5fx7MImWw

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The Messenger reports:

The U.S. government hasn’t discussed the preparations publicly. The State Department declined a request for comment. While Pentagon spokesperson Lt. Col. Martin Meiners declined to comment directly on the planning, he said, “We do not see a conflict in the Taiwan Strait as imminent or inevitable.”

The planning process has been kept quiet because it is a sensitive subject for the Taiwanese government, one source said; more generally, one former State Department official said, “Even talking about an [evacuation plan] starts people thinking something may be going on even if it is just prudent planning.”

As of 2019, more than 80,000 Americans were in Taiwan, which has faced rising threats from the Chinese military and Chinese leadership in recent years. Some U.S. officials have said an invasion could happen in the coming years, while other officials and experts doubt the Chinese government will resort to force in its longstanding pledge to “reunify” with Taiwan.

Planning for an evacuation from Taiwan “is a very prudent thing to do,” said Mark Cancian, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who has run Taiwan war games and was involved in the 1975 evacuation of Americans from Saigon. But he added that these are only contingency plans. “The fact that the U.S. is doing this doesn’t mean that they expect there will be a war. It’s only a statement that there could be a war.”

A reporter asked National Security Council spokesman John Kirby about the latest developments in Taiwan and if evacuation plans were true.

WATCH:

REPORTER: "The administration is drafting plans to evacuate U.S. citizens from Taiwan…Can you confirm that?"

KIRBY: "It's not your routine U.S. policy to evacuate private American citizens from areas of conflict…" pic.twitter.com/Jp73p0T4Yj

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 12, 2023

As Just the News highlighted, the Biden administration has failed miserably in prior mass evacuation plans.

Such a mass evacuation would likely face hurdles given the need for aerial or maritime transport, which could conceivably occur under fire.

News of the plans comes after the Biden administration declined to attempt the mass evacuation of U.S. citizens in Sudan when civil war broke out in the country earlier this year. Moreover, the administration’s last attempted mass evacuation came during the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan for which President Joe Biden received considerable scrutiny.

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