#PRC:Taiwan January 2024 presidential contest. Stephen Yates, Ty chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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#PRC:Taiwan January 2024 presidential contest. Stephen Yates, Ty chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-lodges-complaints-over-us-weapons-aid-taiwan-2023-08-01/
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| 0:32.0 | Beijing Reuters. China said it is complained to the United States about a weapons age package |
| 0:39.0 | to Taiwan, urging Washington to refrain from going further down a, quote, wrong and dangerous path. |
| 0:47.0 | Gordon Chang at Gordon T. Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend, and we're drawn by Steve Yates. |
| 0:54.0 | Steve is our guide from the America First Policy Institute on these threats to Taiwan that are so routine now. |
| 1:01.0 | It's very difficult to anticipate a day leading a week or a day ending a week where the wolf warriors are not growling. |
| 1:10.0 | Steve, this dangerous and wrong path, that must sound better in Mandarin than it sounds in English. |
| 1:17.0 | What is it intended to convey in who is the audience for this? Good evening to you, Steve. |
| 1:24.0 | Good evening, John. Well, as with almost all communications from the Communist Party, |
| 1:29.0 | there are a multitude of audiences. I mean, there's first and foremost the morale of their troops |
| 1:35.0 | and the political warfare that's engaged inside their system to make people believe that they're rising, they're strong, |
| 1:42.0 | they have this capability and that they are succeeding in cowering and deterring their adversaries out there, |
| 1:50.0 | whether it be split as forces in Taiwan or the evil Americans or whomever. So that's one. |
| 1:56.0 | They're also speaking in very blunt terms in the wolf warrior style to Americans primarily to try to suggest that they're prepared to escalate this tension or conflict, |
| 2:09.0 | and Americans should not be playing games willy-nilly to bring this conflict into reality. |
| 2:17.0 | You know, this is not a conversation based on reality in many ways. China, of course, has invested billions upon billions of dollars in military material |
| 2:28.0 | and engaged in comprehensive warfare of many kinds against Taiwan and the United States for that matter just haven't had direct military conflict. |
| 2:37.0 | So a few million or a hundred million or even a few billion of defense articles of Taiwan doesn't tip the balance at all, |
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