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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Taiwan, CCP Hold Parallel War Drills

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Government, Education

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

China’s communist regime is holding drills to prepare for a sea-borne invasion of the self-ruled island of Taiwan, while Taiwan is responding with its own drills for a potential war. In the face of this, the United States is shifting its military focus to the Asia-Pacific, and is discussing with allies whether they’re ready for a war with the Chinese regime.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 

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The Chinese Communist Party is holding drills for a possible sea invasion of Taiwan.

0:05.0

And Taiwan has also launched its own largest ever drills for a potential war.

0:11.0

In the face of this, the United States is also shifting its military focus to the Asia-Pacific region

0:16.0

and is discussing with allies on whether or not they're ready for a war with the CCP.

0:21.6

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has launched a program for drone dominance and is moving to mass produce its own small drones.

0:29.6

And also, there may be a grand conspiracy of foot. The FBI is apparently now investigating this.

0:36.6

I'll be talking about these topics and more

0:39.2

today. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads.

0:48.9

Welcome to Crossroads. The show by the Epic Times, America's largest independent newspaper,

0:57.0

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1:03.0

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1:08.0

Now look, the Chinese Communist Party, they're holding drills to what? Well,

1:12.2

to prepare to invade Taiwan. They're actually running sea invasion drills. And Taiwan, they're taking

1:18.0

it more serious than usual this time. They're holding their own drills for potential war.

1:23.7

Important context with this. When militaries hold drills, if they were to actually invade, they

1:31.2

call it a drill. That's the deeper context. And in the face of this, the United States is also

1:37.1

shifting its military focus to Asia Pacific and also asking its allies, including Japan and

1:43.1

Australia, are they ready to go to war with the Chinese Communist Party?

1:48.0

That's where we're at now.

1:50.0

Videos posted online show the Chinese Communist Party's landing craft.

1:53.0

They're referring to these as tank boats.

1:56.0

These are troop carriers, but they have the cannons of a tank.

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