PRC: NUKES: Peter Huessy, president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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Peter Huessy, president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host. |
| 0:10.3 | We welcome the president of Geostrategic Analysis and a fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, Peter Husey. |
| 0:18.0 | He'll help us understand an undercount in China. |
| 0:21.7 | That's right. |
| 0:22.7 | A country that's adept at overcounting its GDP undercount something far more significant. |
| 0:29.5 | Peter, a very good day to you. |
| 0:31.6 | Good day to you, John. |
| 0:32.7 | Warheads, missiles, silos, what are they undercounting in the People's Republic to our best estimate? |
| 0:38.7 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:39.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:40.6 | And you have to understand something, and it's not unlike Russia. |
| 0:45.2 | The Chinese build dual-use systems, meaning missiles, airplanes, bombers, and ships, |
| 0:51.5 | they can have both nuclear and non-nuclear warheads. |
| 0:55.8 | And they test them in this way. And then they claim, oh, no, no, no, there's a sharp line |
| 1:00.6 | between all these things over here are conventional and they don't have nukes. And then over here, |
| 1:05.7 | well, they don't talk much about what they have in the nuclear area. As John Howe, who is a |
| 1:10.6 | former top official at Lockheed |
| 1:12.7 | Martin and also now has his own business in Alabama and writes reports for most of the major |
| 1:19.5 | defense organizations in the U.S. government has come out with a study that he says there be |
| 1:25.2 | their H-20 bomber that carries between 10 and 40 tons of weapons, |
| 1:31.3 | is a theater nuclear capable weapon with a range. They'll have about 1,500 to 2,500 warheads in the next decade that are just devoted to the bombers, which aren't counted in any numbers that you see |
| 1:45.3 | officially from our intelligence services. |
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