S8 Ep161: China and Russia Coordinate Threats Against Japan Over Taiwan — Rebecca Grant — Grant documents coordinated China-Russia diplomatic pressure against Japan, triggered by Prime Minister Takichi Sai's assertion that Chinese invasion of Taiwan would constitut

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China and Russia Coordinate Threats Against Japan Over Taiwan — Rebecca Grant — Grant documents coordinated China-Russia diplomatic pressure against Japan, triggered by Prime Minister Takichi Sai's assertion that Chinese invasion of Taiwan would constitute an existential threat necessitating Japanese military mobilization. Grantnotes that despite Chinese nuclear saber-rattling and Cold War-era propaganda campaigns, Japanese leadership is categorically refusing diplomatic capitulation, systematically strengthening defensive military capabilities and alliance relationships, demonstrating unprecedented strategic resolve against intimidation.
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0:36.8	I'm John Batson.
0:37.7	Gordon Chang, at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host.
0:41.5	China, Russia, discuss Ukraine, goes to Reuters headline in these last hours.
0:46.7	They reach a consensus that's in quotes on Japan during Chinese ministers' visit.
0:51.9	What consensus?
0:52.8	There's a photograph of Lavrov on one side of a table.
0:56.4	No flowers in the middle, I note, the Chinese affectation. The other side is Wang Yi.
1:02.1	The wolf warrior now subdued, we're told. And throwing down the gauntlet in some fashion is China directing at Japan. This looks like a game of risk,
1:14.0	except for at some point in these last hours, nuclear weapons have been mentioned by the Chinese.
1:19.8	We welcome the vice president of the Lexington Institute, Rebecca Grant, to help us sort this out.
1:26.6	Best I can understand, Rebecca,
1:28.7	some part of the apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party
1:31.9	has threatened Japan with nuclear weapons.
1:34.2	At the same time, Wang Yi, retired Wolf Warrior,
1:37.8	is in Moscow with Lavrov, agreeing on, I guess, Japan,
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