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Taiwan, threatened by the People's Republic of China, in specific, the People's Liberation Army Navy.

The threats are real, and yet there are exercises for the PLA Navy to demonstrate its power. This is a stark illustration of a new book, Em China America's greatest strategic failure.

I welcome Captain James Finel, United States Navy retired, and his colleague Bradley Thayer who published this book in time for us to reverse

our errors but not much time. Gentlemen good evening to you thank you very much.

Jim I begin with you because these last weeks there's been expectation that

China will demonstrate once again its aggression by in some fashion buzzing or sailing by or dominating Taiwan waters between the mainland and Taiwan or east of Taiwan.

And we're watching that as we speak.

Is this expected these days and is the expectation teaching us anything?

Good evening to you, Jim. Good evening to you Jim.

Good evening, John and Brad.

And well, what we just saw through the night was the Chinese announce that they are going to conduct two days of exercises which they have labeled Joint Sword 2024 Alpha.

You recall last year Joint Sword 2023 was the first time that the Chinese Sword, after Nancy Pelosi's visit in August of 22.

So we've had August of 2022 where they did operations

intensively around Taiwan firing ballistic missiles.

Then in April of 2023, and now we have this exercise which is for two days and

they've announced the closure areas that are very very close to Taiwan

inside the contiguous zone which is inside 24 nautical miles of the main island of Taiwan

five closure areas in addition to other closure areas for the offshore islands of like

Kinman and Matsu and a couple of other smaller islands right off the mainland.

So what we are seeing now is another demonstration and this is coming right after the inauguration of the new

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