This is John Batchelor, conversation with colleague Gregory Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Starting in Sri Lanka, Gregory connects the dots of Eurasia for what China would take on as a seven-front war in the event and when it attacks Taiwan to reclaim it.

Seven-front war.

Some of the fronts involve India, another would involve Vietnam, certainly one would involve Japan,

can't leave out South Korea, and then there is the U.S. and Australia.

All these fronts, China says it can confront and defeat.

At the same time, China has to be concerned I learned from Gregory about Russia.

Shijinping has let it be known that he's ambitions to reclaim Vladivostak

which would end Russia's global power if it lost its specific front. So Russia and China are not

compadres when it comes to Siberia and Vladivostak, a seven-front war.

It's extremely complicated, but here it is in a condensed form presented by Gregory to understand the jealousies the competition the apparent

comity between Beijing and Moscow we have to presume at this point is

expedient and not in anything to count on. There's Gregory Coppley on a seven-front

war. Soon enough, the trigger is Taiwan. More tonight. So that's interesting and the Chinese have said that they're prepared if they go to war on Taiwan.

They would be prepared to have a multi-front war, not just a two-front war, but a multi-front

war because they'd probably have to go to war against Japan as well, because Japan said it would support

Taiwan.

They would have to go to war against India and also Vietnam.

Now, the question is to what extent

will Russia support them or oppose them?

Because, bear in mind that the that President Putin in Russia has

taken great umbrage to the declared intent of Shijin ping in China to take back or take the Russian port city of Vladivostok on the sea of

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