This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

On the eve of the meeting between the President of the United States, Joseph Biden,

and Shijin-Ping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in California,

the occasion on the sidelines of the AIPAC meeting. the on one small part of the Pacific, that would be East Asia, that would be the South China Sea,

and at the top of the South China Sea is the island of Taiwan, threatened routinely by the Chinese

Communist Party, by the PLA, Navy, by Shijin Ping, and his

counselors and lieutenants. What is to be done? The U.S. Navy has an answer which

is to reinforce the United States of America has an answer which is to reinforce

the United States of America has an answer which is to make certain that Taiwan

has everything it needs to defend itself but

I welcome Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of

Defense and Foreign Affairs, looking at the war plans as we understand it from

the PRC's point of view. This is an island of uncertain population, but a lot of geographical

oddities that will require attention by the PLA if it is to invade or reduce it to

cinders that's a choice it must make. Gregory a very good evening to you the

war plans they're evolving as you write how so good evening to you the war plans they're evolving as you write how so good

evening to you good evening John well the the interesting thing is that general

secretary she has come to understand that the PLA is neither ready to engage in a kinetic operation against Taiwan, the Republic of China, nor is it reliable and he is now embarked on a

purge of the PLA which could take as long as a year.

It's very much akin to the scale of the purge of the military

undertaken by Stalin in the USSR immediately before the Soviet Union was thrust

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