S8 Ep904: Rick Fisher discusses record-breaking arms packages for Taiwan, including loitering drones and missile defense, to counter potential Chinese invasion. Gordon Chang emphasizes the need for equipment capable of surviving an initial massive missile barrage.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 1:19.6 | I welcome Gordon Chang at Gordon-Gee-Chang, my colleague and co-host. |
| 1:23.7 | And we're looking at the post-post assessment of the meeting between President Trump and the |
| 1:31.3 | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping in Beijing for 48 hours of photo ops |
| 1:38.0 | walking and talking and mentioning some of the flashpoints right now in the 21st century, chiefly Taiwan, |
| 1:47.0 | and we're very pleased to welcome our colleague, Rick Fisher, of the International Assessment |
| 1:51.8 | and Strategy Center, to help us understand, after all that rhetoric, what does it come to? |
| 1:57.4 | Is there anything different about Taiwan's vulnerability and China's bellicosity? |
| 2:02.6 | Rick, a very good day to you. I learned that the Taiwan story comes down to some numbers. |
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