#PRC: Xi speaks in violent metaphors & What is to be done? James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet,
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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#PRC: Xi speaks in violent metaphors & What is to be done? James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-jinping-plays-up-possibility-of-worsening-tensions-with-the-west-aac2dff8
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:11.0 | Threats. Threats from the People's Republic of China. |
| 0:14.6 | Threats from the top of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 0:18.1 | Threats from Xi Jinping. |
| 0:20.3 | The three-time elected head of the Chinese Communist Party, |
| 0:24.2 | the General Secretary himself. |
| 0:26.5 | We have this from the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:28.2 | from Lingling-Y, the correspondent in China. |
| 0:31.9 | We have it because the Wall Street Journal has published it |
| 0:34.4 | without risk of being defensorated from China. |
| 0:38.2 | Therefore, I'm hesitant to say exactly why we have this. |
| 0:44.6 | But here it is, May 30th Xi Jinping, a quote in the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:50.3 | We must be prepared for worst case and extreme scenarios |
| 0:55.5 | and be ready to withstand the major test of high winds, |
| 0:59.2 | choppy waters, and even dangerous storms. |
| 1:03.2 | I welcome Gordon Chang, |
| 1:04.6 | at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend. |
| 1:07.7 | Gordon, the metaphor is high winds, choppy waters, and dangerous storms. |
| 1:11.9 | Is that Chinese poetry? |
| 1:13.3 | What is that all about? |
| 1:14.5 | Good evening to you. |
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