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PREVIEW: PRC: OCEANIA: Conversation with colleague Jonathan Ward, author, DECISIVE DECADE, re the Belt and Road plan for the Indo-Pacific -- buy influence, then scare resistance, then dominate. More later.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 August 2024

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PREVIEW: PRC: OCEANIA: Conversation with colleague Jonathan Ward, author, DECISIVE DECADE, re the Belt and Road plan for the Indo-Pacific -- buy influence, then scare resistance, then dominate. More later.

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This is John Bachelor, conversation with colleague Jonathan Ward, his book The Decisive Decade American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China. Jonathan takes on China's plan for

0:55.7

Oceania. This is a very careful laid-out plan to dominate the Pacific Ocean way outside the First Island Chain with influence

1:07.4

peddling.

1:09.2

As I'm taught to say, the first instinct for the Chinese communists is to buy you and if they can't buy you

1:16.0

then their idea is to scare you.

1:19.2

There are tactics that are being used all across the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

1:24.6

Jonathan Ward on Rista Oceania.

1:29.3

More of this later.

1:31.3

Well, look, China's belt and road strategy is both an economic and a military strategy.

1:35.6

So they envision multiple what they call maritime economic corridors.

1:40.0

One goes through the Indian Ocean, another goes through the Arctic Sea Route, and by the way they now have

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