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NATO: PRC ALWAYS WINS TABLETOPS. AND WAR. HENRY SOKOLSKI NPEC..

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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NATO: PRC ALWAYS WINS TABLETOPS.  AND WAR. HENRY SOKOLSKI NPEC..
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.9

This is CBS, I on the world.

0:14.5

I'm John Batchel.

0:15.5

I welcome my colleague Henry Sikolsky,

0:17.4

the executive director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center.

0:21.8

The place, Chatham House, London, the Speaker, Mark Rudy, the General Secretary of NATO.

0:28.8

This quote, China will have in 2030 a hundred more ships in the U.S. is currently, and they'll

0:35.1

have a defense industrial base in China to build even more ships,

0:38.5

which the Americans at this moment can absolutely not compete with. And this is one of the big issues

0:43.7

we have that when it comes to defense spending, there is an issue with Europe and Canada. But

0:48.5

when it comes to defense production, there is an issue with Europe, Canada, and the United

0:53.4

States, because all

0:55.0

over the alliance, we are not producing enough. Henry, a very good evening to you. Your colleagues

1:01.2

have an article at Real Clear Defense. It makes much the same case from another point of view about

1:06.5

tabletops. Tabletops is the fresh language for war games, and that in that war game, that

1:14.6

Chinese production machine always wins. Tell us about it, Henry. Good evening to you.

1:19.8

Good evening. Good to be on your show. Well, the Secretary of Defense over the last weekend

1:27.4

publicly stated that every time the Pentagon

1:31.7

plays a war game against or with China in some theoretical war scenario, we lose every

1:41.8

single time. And he said this publicly.

1:47.5

Now, it isn't just ships. Everything else is being produced in larger numbers in China, things like drones and missiles,

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