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🗓️ 11 January 2026
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| 0:46.2 | communist china america's greatest strategic failure has recommendations about what is to be done |
| 0:51.0 | we come to this one which is is war fighting. Proliferation. Now, my interpretation |
| 0:58.0 | of that is the Japanese are a turnkey away from being a nuclear power, perhaps the same for |
| 1:04.0 | Seoul for the Republic of Korea. We can name others, but those two are obvious. Is the lack of Team B, does that mean that they're not thinking about this, |
| 1:16.7 | that this is an outlier to Washington to turn our allies into assets |
| 1:22.9 | when it comes to China's routine, strategic forces threat, routine. |
| 1:27.4 | You saw that with Vladimir Putin routine, strategic forces threat. Routine, you saw that with Vladimir Putin |
| 1:29.6 | threatening strategic forces in Ukraine, China, Beijing, Moscow, Xi, Putin, both came together |
| 1:39.1 | with a 7,000-word statement in which they said a nuclear war should never be taught, never be fought. We all got the |
| 1:46.1 | message. So proliferation, is that an answer right now, Jim? It has to be, John, because of that |
| 1:53.1 | strategic mismatch that has occurred. We talk a lot about the cross-strait environment, about the |
| 1:58.4 | status quo. But China's basically obliterated the |
| 2:02.5 | status quo for the last 35 years in the conventional arena. And in this last three years, |
| 2:07.7 | under the Biden administration, China's put 350 ICBM silos out in central and western China |
| 2:13.2 | and build up their nuclear arsenal with the improvements like to the JL3 on their ballistic missile |
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