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you'll back on track. Welcome to the 3-Martini lunch. Grab a stool next to Greg Korumbus

of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. 3-Martini's coming up. So glad that

you are with us for the Tuesday edition of the 3-Martini lunch. We're sad again to tell

you today if there's no good martini and that even includes on the kidney stone front,

but I'm feeling good enough certainly to do the podcast today. If there was a good martini

today, Jim, it might be the manning brothers doing their simulcast on Monday night football

last night. That was infinitely more entertaining than the actual commentary. But let's get

right to our first bad martini. And when the US debacle in Afghanistan started to unfold

about a month ago now, we said, this weakness is going to be exploited by other people we don't like

and it couldn't mean bad things for Taiwan, for Ukraine, for the Baltics. And China's already

proving us right on this, although I think a lot of people saw this coming. Two different

stories from a state-run media in China. So you know this is what the government is thinking.

First from the Global Times, the Taiwan question has been kept brewing more than half of China's

diplomatic troubles are related to it. In the long run, the cost of maintaining the current

peace in the Taiwan Straits will only increase for the Chinese mainland. The US and Japan have

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