PREVIEW: PRC: PLA NAVY Captain James Fanell, USN (retired), reports on the removal or unexplained absence of two critical PLA Navy admirals from the East Asia command. More tonight.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague James Fennell of the United States Navy Captain Intelligence Retired, |
| 0:08.3 | who is now also watching very carefully the predation of the People's Republic of China. |
| 0:15.9 | Jim here identifies two admirals, most recently suspended or missing from their chairs in the Ministry of |
| 0:24.3 | Defense or in the PLA and PLA Navy, and comes to no conclusion other than to say, all is not |
| 0:32.7 | stable in the PLA Navy that is said to be a challenge to the United States Navy. |
| 0:38.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:40.1 | Okay. |
| 0:40.8 | And so Dong Jun has been suspected of being under investigation, |
| 0:44.3 | but my sources say that that's not necessarily true. |
| 0:47.3 | So we have one admiral that's been relieved for corruption ostensibly. |
| 0:52.2 | And so this plays into it as well, but I still say that |
| 0:55.8 | Xi is in firm control, the PLA. |
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