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🗓️ 28 July 2023
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0:20.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batcher with my colleague, Colonel Jeff McCauzzon, |
0:30.0 | in our state's army retired CBS News. |
0:33.0 | The report from the Pacific is a puzzle to me because right now, Russia and China are conducting joint |
0:41.0 | C exercises in the Sea of Japan, deliberately provocative against South Korea or ally against |
0:48.0 | Japan or ally, deliberately so, following days of overflight of nuclear-capable bombers by China |
0:55.0 | and Russia in the Sea of Japan. Jeff, here's the quandary for me. China is an adversary. |
1:02.0 | At the same time, it's a trading partner. China so far is said to have stayed out of |
1:08.0 | the conflict in Ukraine and yet China is conducting threatening exercises against our allies |
1:13.0 | in the Pacific while claiming to be neutral in the Ukraine war. |
1:17.0 | That something about this doesn't add up, Jeff. China is a threat, correct? |
1:22.0 | And it and often presented as a bigger threat than Russia, correct? |
1:27.0 | Absolutely correct. I would say John because China is a threat to the United States, not only militarily, |
1:32.0 | and we see they're growing nuclear power in probably the next few years. |
1:36.0 | They may have a strategic nuclear capability that's parallel to ours, but they are also enormous |
1:41.0 | economic threat to the United States. Throughout the Cold War, I always point out to people, |
1:46.0 | we competed some degree with the Russians, the Soviets economically, but at its height, |
1:51.0 | the economy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was about the size of Belgium. |
1:55.0 | And that's not true obviously with the second or at least first perhaps, |
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