#StateThinking: All eyes on the US/Philippines exercises in the South China Sea. . @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
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🗓️ 12 April 2023
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#StateThinking: All eyes on the US/Philippines exercises in the South China Sea. . @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-philippines-follow-taiwan-drills-with-biggest-exercises/ar-AA19HaP1
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchett with my colleague, Mary Kisle, executive vice |
| 0:09.5 | president, Stevenson, cooperated. Former senior adviser to the Secretary of State with |
| 0:16.3 | the highest classified document permission once upon a time. So therefore a professional |
| 0:24.0 | who understands the scale of the intel leak which is not finished. We cannot presume |
| 0:29.8 | there aren't more documents defined. The way these documents were distributed, January |
| 0:35.2 | and Discord. Who else can say how much is out there and how much has been found? We |
| 0:40.9 | now come to Taiwan because Bloomberg had lined. The US Philippines followed Taiwan drills |
| 0:47.4 | with greatest exercises. The US and the Philippines kicked off the largest version of their flagship |
| 0:52.5 | military exercise in more than 30 years. Within these last hours Asia time, a high-profile |
| 0:58.8 | display of their annuda alliance that includes live training targeting a decommissioned vessel |
| 1:04.6 | near the South China Sea. The South China Sea is where China has fortified artificial |
| 1:12.5 | islands where China has declared an air defense identification zone. In addition, the last |
| 1:19.0 | days were told because of the visit of Tsai Ing-wen, the elected president of Taiwan, |
| 1:25.7 | to New York, to Central America, to Los Angeles. We're told people's Republic of China has |
| 1:31.3 | filled a large force of air and sea or craft in order to intimidate Taiwan for several |
| 1:39.0 | days ongoing. Mary, on one hand, this is business as usual, but the US and the Philippines |
| 1:46.1 | working together is fresh information, especially because this agreement was signed recently |
| 1:52.4 | after many years of enmity. Do you measure that China's exercises here are meant to be more |
| 1:58.5 | or less threatening than in the past? Is there some new twist here, Mary? |
| 2:02.5 | I don't see a twist, frankly, with these exercises, and I'm kind of surprised, actually, that Beijing |
| 2:08.8 | didn't mount in even greater response. You mentioned the Philippines, John. It is remarkable |
| 2:16.1 | how China's aggressiveness under the Xi regime has encouraged and incentivized US allies to |
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