The Chinese objective is not to just stop at the first island chain,

but rather it's to go all the way to the west coast of Latin America.

Today, I sit down with Colonel Grant Neuchin, a retired U.S. Marine officer

and author of, when China attacks, a warning to America.

That first island chain actually hems in the People's Liberation Army.

It makes it very hard for them to get into the Pacific.

But if China takes Taiwan, they have seized a lodgement right in the middle.

Think of a castle wall being breached from cyber warfare to legal warfare to chemical warfare.

How does the Chinese Communist Party use unconventional warfare techniques

to systematically target, subvert and weaken its enemies?

Pentecostal killed about 70,000 Americans last year.

Think about it, you've effectively launched an attack on your main enemy.

You're killing, taking what amounts to a couple divisions of troops off the battlefield every year.

And nobody does anything.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanyi Kaelic.

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