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#PREVIEW: #PRC: #PLANAVY: From a conversation about China media organs boasting of PLA hardware, colleague Rick Fisher of the International Assessment & Strategy Center provides a chronoological analysis of the PLAN then and now. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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#PREVIEW: #PRC: #PLANAVY: From a conversation about China media organs boasting of PLA hardware, colleague Rick Fisher of the International Assessment & Strategy Center provides a chronoological analysis of the PLAN then and now. More later.

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This is John Bachelor from a conversation with colleague Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center

0:37.0

about announcements of the Chinese military making breakthroughs in microwave transmission,

0:44.1

microwave intelligence gathering, warships,

0:47.7

all the boasting that goes on.

0:50.4

I ask Rick Fisher if this is a Potemkin village, if the reports of Chinese

0:56.3

rocketry are accurate about false fuel, aboutheads that are inside silos and the lid doesn't open.

1:07.0

Is that true for the Navy as well?

1:09.0

Rick gives a very specific answer about the threat of the PLA Navy now here in 2024.

1:17.0

John, in my experience of attending Chinese and then Chinese displays at international military

1:26.8

exhibitions since 1996 has been that while early on in the 80s and the 90s yes the the PLA had many

1:37.8

aspects of Potemkin affectation today that is simply not expectation.

1:44.0

Today that is simply not the case.

1:47.0

The weapons, the systems are world-class.

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