PREVIEW: HEADLINE: China's Misstep with Poland: A Strong European State Pushes Back GUEST NAME: Victoria Coates SUMMARY: John Batchelor converses with Victoria Coates regarding China's attempts to pressure Poland concerning border issues with Belarus. Pol
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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HEADLINE: China's Misstep with Poland: A Strong European State Pushes Back
GUEST NAME: Victoria Coates
SUMMARY: John Batchelor converses with Victoria Coates regarding China's attempts to pressure Polandconcerning border issues with Belarus. Poland is pushing back against China, asserting its strong independence, expanding economy, and significant military armament, partly from the US. Coates suggests China may misunderstand Poland's resolve, making this a potential misstep.
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| 0:25.2 | This is John Batchler, conversation with Victoria Coates of the Heritage Foundation, |
| 0:29.3 | vice president of the heritage, former Deputy National Security Advisor, |
| 0:36.1 | about what appears to be the People's Republic of China attempting to push or bully Poland. |
| 0:44.9 | Poland is objecting to its frontier being used as a dumping zone for the refugees, migrants, |
| 0:53.1 | trade, troublemakers, in from Belarus and is pushing back, not just at Russia, where it has no conversation whatsoever to my knowledge, |
| 0:55.9 | not just at Belarus, where it has no conversation to any mind, to my information, |
| 1:01.2 | but to China itself when Wang Yi was meeting with the Polish foreign minister. |
| 1:06.9 | A warning label here, this is Poland, China, and Victoria observes how China might not be picking up the signals. |
| 1:17.1 | This is not a get-along-to-go-along European state. This is Poland. More of this later tonight. |
| 1:27.0 | Well, and that's an interesting question, John, because I agree we don't understand the way |
| 1:31.3 | they think, but I don't think they understand the way Poland thinks, having, you know, |
| 1:35.9 | been through the devastation of the Second World War and then the Soviet period of time. |
| 1:42.3 | And so, yes, they are on a hair trigger. They have a new president, |
| 1:45.7 | President Carol Narwaki, who recently had an excellent visit at the White House. They have an |
| 1:51.1 | expanding economy. They're about to top a trillion dollar economy. President thinks they |
| 1:55.8 | should be in the G20. I agree with that. And we've been arming them to the teeth. So I think all of that might not turn |
| 2:03.5 | out the way China thinks. It might, I think there's a big difference between the Polish president |
| 2:08.8 | and their foreign minister in terms of how this might be responded to. I think now Rocky is much |
| 2:14.8 | closer to President Trump than the foreign minister is for various reasons. |
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