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PRC POSSIBLY WOBBLY, ASKING FOR TALKS: 2/4: Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure Hardcover – by James Fanell (Author), Bradley Thayer (Author),

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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PRC POSSIBLY WOBBLY, ASKING FOR TALKS:   2/4: Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure Hardcover – by  James Fanell  (Author), Bradley Thayer  (Author),

https://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Communist-China-Americas-Strategic/dp/1648210597/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?crid=SVI5QKVDH7ZQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3CuO3jl7d1hENlqXaYI1Kw.KJkeRg4eW-N9W9Ot0y7eRVaoCa8IXAU3S7fe2eAUdTI&dib_tag=se&keywords=Embracing+China+Fannell+thayer&qid=1716425180&s=books&sprefix=embracing+china+fannell+thayer%2Cstripbooks%2C123&sr=1-1-fkmr0

For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans—a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics.  
 
But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US could lose its dominant position after its Cold War victory and allow the rise of a peer enemy over a short period of time—about thirty years.
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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.4

I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.

0:07.9

A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.

0:14.2

For materials, tool hire, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.

0:19.0

Like Teralis, porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square metre.

0:22.4

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Bertels.

0:35.1

I'm John Bachelor with Jim Fennell and Brad Thayer.

0:39.1

Their new book is Embracing Communist China, America's greatest strategic failure,

0:44.1

while the PLA Navy is demonstrating its threat against the ally, Taiwan,

0:49.4

and the whole of Western Pacific threatened by the PLA Navy, including our allies in Japan and the Philippines

0:56.9

and Australia. We look to 1919, as Jim and Brad have identified, as a moment when the British Empire

1:05.3

lost the Second World War. Why? Because Germany was in ruins, nothing to worry about. In fact, let us help them as best

1:15.4

we can with our diplomats, but not too much. Let them sort it out. Let them use the Weimar and the

1:21.8

parliament and their own disorder with communism. And we can take confidence of the 10-year rule. Jim, what was the 10-year

1:32.1

rule that the British Empire employed in 1919 that led to the defeat of 1940? I'm going to let

1:40.2

Brad answer that one. Well, I'm happy to, Jim, the 10-year rule was put in place by defense planners in the United

1:49.8

Kingdom.

1:51.2

And the idea was that for the next 10 years, there would not be a major conflict that would

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