USN: 2027 Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
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Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute,
@GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
1936 RANGER, LEXINGTON, SARATOGA
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/f-47s-mission-take-china-you-have-have-it
https://www.foxnews.com/world/germany-says-us-talks-russia-ukraine-war-deadlocked-china-has-different-takehttps://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-military-says-it-is-conducting-exercises-around-taiwan-2025-03-31/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang, my colleague and friend. |
| 0:08.3 | We're very pleased to welcome Rebecca Grant, |
| 0:11.0 | Vice President of the Lexington Institute. |
| 0:13.6 | Rebecca, a good day to you, |
| 0:15.3 | confirmed that on the second day of the Chinese display of force |
| 0:19.8 | off the island of Taiwan entitled Straight Thunder |
| 0:24.1 | 2025 Alpha. The Chinese fleet is going in for live fire, similar to the live fire that |
| 0:32.2 | suddenly emerged from those two warships and supply ship in the Tasman Sea off Australia. |
| 0:37.4 | How does the Navy here |
| 0:38.9 | live fire exercise unannounced suddenly from China? Good evening to you. Good evening. Well, |
| 0:45.3 | no question. The United States Navy and our whole joint force in the Pacific was watching every |
| 0:50.9 | move made by China. The live fire aspect of the drills, which China says |
| 0:56.6 | included live fires of rockets, you know, that's to excite the Chinese sailors and airmen. |
| 1:03.3 | And also to send the message with this exercise in particular, China wants to look like |
| 1:09.8 | they're doing it like the U.S. does. It's got a |
| 1:12.5 | fancy name, straight thunder. They're actually using moderate live fire. They've also claimed |
| 1:19.2 | this is an integrated joint force exercise. These are all signs of Xi Jinping's military being more |
| 1:26.2 | aggressive and trying to show that they are trained |
| 1:28.8 | up and ready to fight in the Pacific. |
| 1:31.1 | Gordon, you have a question. |
| 1:33.3 | Rebecca, it was announced that the Shandong, one of China's three aircraft carriers, |
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