I'm John Batch with Brad Thayer and James Finel.

Jim, your book Embracing Communist China America's Greatest Strategic Failure has recommendations about what is to be done.

We come to this one which is war fighting.

Proliferation.

Now my interpretation of that is the Japanese are a turnkey away from being a nuclear power

perhaps the same for 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 that this is an

outlier to Washington to turn our allies into assets when it comes

to China's routine strategic forces threat.

Routine you saw that with Vladimir Putin's threatening strategic

forces in Ukraine. China, Beijing, Moscow, she, Putin, both he came together with a 7,000 word statement in which they said a nuclear

war should never be fought, never be fought.

We all got the message.

So proliferation, is that an answer right now Jim? It has to be John because of that

strategic mismatch that has occurred. We talk a lot about the prostrate environment about the

status quo but China is basically

obliterated the status quo for the last 35 years in the conventional arena, and in this last

three years under the Biden administration,

China's put 350 ICBM silos out in central and western China

and build up their nuclear arsenal

with the improvements like to the JL3 on their ballistic missile submarines that have a 12,000 kilometer range that can range most of the econes in the United States.

So we are in a situation right now that if we wanted to defend Taiwan as we watch this joint sword exercise unfold, we're going to be in a tough position to do that. And so we need to change the calculus in Beijing and in Washington it's true I mean I think

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