S8 Ep696: 1. James Fanell discusses China’s "Joint Sword 2024 Alpha" military exercises, describing them as an "Anaconda strategy" intended to blockade and pressure Taiwan following its presidential inauguration. He and Bradley Thayer argue that Washington's "neo-e
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
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1. James Fanell discusses China’s "Joint Sword 2024 Alpha" military exercises, describing them as an "Anaconda strategy" intended to blockade and pressure Taiwan following its presidential inauguration. He and Bradley Thayer argue that Washington's "neo-engagement" policy has failed, allowing the CCP to exert influence over Americaninstitutions. (1)
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| 0:42.4 | Taiwan, threatened by the People's Republic of China, in specific the People's Liberation Army Navy. |
| 0:49.4 | The threats are real, and yet there are exercises for the PLA Navy to demonstrate its power. |
| 0:57.2 | This is a stark illustration of a new book, Embracing Communist China, America's Greatest |
| 1:05.2 | Strategic Failure. |
| 1:06.5 | I welcome Captain James Finnell, United States Navy retired, and his colleague Bradley Thayer, |
| 1:13.0 | who published this book, in time for us to reverse our errors, but not much time. |
| 1:18.5 | Gentlemen, good evening to you. Thank you very much. Jim, I begin with you because these last |
| 1:23.8 | weeks, there's been expectation that China will demonstrate once again its aggression |
| 1:30.0 | by, in some fashion, buzzing or sailing by or dominating Taiwan waters between the mainland |
| 1:38.8 | and Taiwan or east of Taiwan. And we're watching that as we speak. |
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