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This is John Batcher, excerpt from a conversation with James Finel, co-author of the

new Embracing Communist China America's greatest strategic failure, also a

government fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, retired US Navy Captain, many years

in the Pacific dealing with intelligence against the People's

Liberation Army Navy.

Commenting on the news report that Manila and Hanoi, the President of the Philippines, Mr. Marcos, and the Prime Minister of Vietnam,

working together with Coast Guard ships in the South China Sea, which both border in order to push back against the

bullying, aggression, and conniving of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

James comments about how China likes to work to bully individuals.

Here's James to explain and a promising development in the South China Sea.

I think it's something that China fears, Beijing fears this.

They like to work on each person individually and work them over because they're big

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