How US Dollars Built—And Continue to Build—China’s Military: James Fanell and Bradley Thayer
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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“The first rule of strategy is don’t assist your enemy. And of course, we violated that time and time again,” says Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
After aggressively building up and modernizing its military, China now has a larger navy than the United States.
How does the Chinese military compare to America’s overall?
What would an invasion or blockade of Taiwan look like for the United States?
Mr. Thayer and James Fanell, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, are co-authors of the new book “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure.” They are founding members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China.
How has progressive, communist ideology subverted America and America’s military?
Did the United States get distracted by smaller wars and lose sight of the bigger looming conflict?
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | The Chinese Navy now is basically over 150 naval combatants greater than the US Navy. |
| 0:07.0 | So this great military growth is largely funded by us. |
| 0:11.0 | Wall Street, our investors, gave them the money to grow their economy, |
| 0:16.5 | to build the weapons to kill us. |
| 0:19.1 | It's not just the PLA by themselves, it's a people's war, so they're engaged with the civilian sector and |
| 0:24.8 | civilian technology and leveraging all of this. |
| 0:28.0 | James Finel and Brad Thayer are co-authors of Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest Strategic Failure. |
| 0:35.7 | Brad Thayer is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. |
| 0:39.1 | James Fennell is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and former Director of Intelligence and Information |
| 0:44.8 | Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. |
| 0:47.0 | Now it seems like we have people in charge of this progressive movement that are |
| 0:51.5 | adopting the policies of the |
| 0:53.4 | Chinese Communist Party. Just look what happened in COVID. Whether communist |
| 0:57.6 | tyranny wins or whether freedom does of course is the fundamental issue of |
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