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Teaser - Taiwan and Putin's War in Ukraine

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🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

China's military is not even as good as Russia's.

0:09.0

And for China to invade Taiwan, that's an amphibious invasion.

0:13.0

Those are extremely hard.

0:15.0

Those are harder to do.

0:16.0

Those are much harder to do to go across the water to invade a country and try to occupy it.

0:22.5

So basically, the Pelosi trip is a sign of confidence in saying, okay, well, Russia turned

0:29.2

out to be a paper tiger. And we know that China has a lot, is bogged down a lot of problems,

0:39.3

internal problems of their own making.

0:45.6

And for China's military isn't nearly as strong. And the military challenge to invade Taiwan is even greater than what Russia had to face in Ukraine. And so basically, Pelosi's trip is a sign of confidence

0:51.4

that China's threat against Taiwan, it's going to be their

0:55.5

Vietnam, basically. If China goes into Taiwan, it's going to be a Vietnam. It's going to be

0:59.5

destabilizing. It's going to further problems that already exist, including severe economic

1:06.4

problems across China. And you have a generation of Chinese that have just become extraordinarily

1:12.5

wealthy and I've seen the world and traveled the world and they know how to access the internet

1:16.6

belong beyond their own world. And if these guys get radicalized with a war, then with a lot of people

1:23.3

dying and sanctions and an isolation of China. And I think that isolation would be more

1:30.7

realistic given that our supply chains have been so disrupted because of our dependence on

1:35.1

China. So you have a lot more local, a lot more pressure on local supply chains to get built

1:40.7

to compensate for limitations coming out of China now because of the pandemic

1:44.3

and severe restrictions in China.

1:46.8

So what I'm saying is that Pelosi's trip is the United States, because she went to Taiwan

1:52.3

with the backing of both parties, the Republican and Democratic parties.

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