This is from the

This is CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor.

China warns Philippines against miscalculation provocation. This is from the China Daily.com. That means

it's a regime press release from the Chinese Communist Party itself. China is

the Philippine side not to have illusion and miscalculation and stop making any risky

and futile provocations in the South China Sea.

I stop there and turn to someone who can help us interpret this odd statement in these

last hours threatening the Philippines by the People's Republic of China's PLA Navy and

Coast Guard. I welcome Bradley Thayer. Embracing Communist China, America's greatest

strategic failure, is his most recent book. He writes with his colleague James Finel,

US Navy retired a captain,

intelligence officer, now in Switzerland.

Brad, a very good day to you.

Thank you very much.

This remark by the defense spokesman in Beijing telling

the Philippines what to do. Let us establish some details here. This is the South China Sea in the exclusive

economic zone of the Philippines. Is that correct? Good day to you Brad.

Good day, John. It's my pleasure to join you. Yes, indeed it is the South China Sea and the People's Republic of

China is in violation of the 2016 permanent court of arbitration's decision as well as the 2002

code of conduct between the Oseon states and the PRC.

but that doesn't stop them.

International law doesn't stop them from their bullying

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