This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor with my friend and colleague Gordon Chang at

Gordon G Chang. We're very pleased to welcome Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center,

publishing most recently at Epoch Times a challenge to interpret Argentina, Denmark, the People's Republic of China, the U.S. Navy, there are more players,

that's enough.

Rick, a very good evening to you.

Your piece puts this puzzle in front of me.

What does Argentina at this moment need but F-16 fourth generation fighters from Denmark and what does China mean to this confab?

We're looking at pieces of the puzzle that don't easily fit together.

Please help me understand.

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

Yes.

I think we should start about, let's say, about this time, April of 2012.

Back then, I received the first indication that the Argentine aircraft factory may be considering

a co-production of Chinese fourth-generation fighters.

This was confirmed at another arms exhibition

about two months later and confirmed by the Argentina themselves at the Paris Air Show a year later.

What I was Harris Air Show a year later.

What I was being told about was the beginning of a Chinese attempt to envelop Argentina to take the then socialist Peronist administration of Christina

Fernandez-de-Kircher-Kircher-Kircner down the path toward a de facto alliance with the People's

Republic of China.

By 2015, Kircner was in line not only to purchase about 24 Chinese jet fighters, but also about 100 Chinese armored fighting vehicles and up to about

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