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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation later today, US Navy captain (retired) Jim Fanell asks where is the PLA Navy Shandong carrier strike group headed in the south Chna Sea. To the Spratly Islands? To intimidate the Philippines? To test the US Navy resp

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation later today, US Navy captain (retired) Jim Fanell asks where is the PLA Navy Shandong carrier strike group headed in the south Chna Sea. To the Spratly Islands? To intimidate the Philippines? To test the US Navy response?

https://www.newsweek.com/china-taiwan-shandong-aircraft-carrier-ally-philippines-1851513

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This is John Bachelor. A long conversation with my colleagues Jim Finel and Gordon Chang asking the question why is China

0:35.3

dispatching a carrier strike group led by the Shandong aircraft carrier to the

0:40.6

South China Sea? Where is it headed?

0:43.0

It's been operating at sea for some time.

0:46.0

Jim observes this is a demonstration of seamanship

0:50.0

to continue the mission back and forth across East Asia. But now the question is, is the

0:58.1

Shandong headed to the Philippines to intimidate our ally to see how the U.S. will respond to provocations with the

1:07.0

carrier strike crew. Jim explains, Jim is a former and tele, is a U.S. Navy captain of course, but he's a former intelligence and

1:15.5

information officer for the US specific fleet.

1:18.5

He speaks in great detail.

1:20.4

This part is where he asks the questions about where they bound and what does this mean for confrontation.

1:26.5

Here's Jim. And so this represents in some real terms just in practical terms it is a demonstration of the

1:36.5

seamanship and capabilities and duration that PLA Navy has been able to use and one of their carriers to stay at Steve for an

1:46.8

extended period of time without having a port call. And so it looks like now that

1:51.6

they're being sent down into the South China Sea to lean on the Philippines.

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