This is a CVS Island in the world. I'm John Bachelor with my friend and

colleague Gordon Chang and we're very pleased to welcome General Blaine

Holt retired US Air Force, once deputy military representative to NATO to help us with a puzzle.

Vladimir Putin in Beijing, the no limits partnership of February 2022, another handshake. It is now undebated that China is boosting the Russian war effort

in Ukraine. If not with bullets, certainly with financial support, and overall understanding of parts,

dual use parts such as chips. It's undisputed. So we're looking at a hostile power China, along with a hostile power Russia, both

were visionous autocracies. Blaine, a very good evening to you. It would

appear that we're dealing with enemies is that you is

that the opinion of the US military that China is an enemy of the United States as

Russia is good evening to you good evening it should be the commonly held view I worry that at some cases you've got

politicians in leadership positions not just uniform but suits as well that feel that China is still a very complicated intricate web that you can

have entry points and you might not have entry points and so for years we've been

dealing with the fancy diplomacy the track two dialogues avoiding the difficult

issues from fentanyl to dumping steel to aggressively, militarily working

against our allies.

And we look the other way. And now we get ourselves to this place where two

powers that are subordinated to us are coming together in a very strong

alliance because they both see us as an enemy and that's a real problem. a very

very strong alliance because they both see us as an enemy and that's a real problem. Russia and China see us as an enemy and they say so every day.

Gordon you have a question for the general.

Lane, President Biden has continually talked about a red line of China supplying quote-unquote lethal aid to Russia.

But China's been doing that from the beginning of the Ukraine war. I mean there's

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