Erik Bethel

Yeah.

And so China says that because an admiral in the Ming dynasty named Zheng He traveled there, that this is all belongs to China, which is complete nonsense.

No, the rules say that- Who's recognizing these borders then?

The border gave, so the UN said that the border belongs to the Philippines.

China said, oh no, it does, and it belongs to us.

We don't care what the UN says.

So China lost their case.

But there's no consequences for them, are there?

I think one of the heroes in the Trump administration, the Trump 45 administration, was Matt Pottinger, who was a former Marine, lived in China for many years, and ran the China team at the National Security Council and then became the Deputy National Security Advisor.

he's now with an outfit called Garneau Global, and they write lots of research pieces on what they expect to happen in Asia.

And, you know, Matt thinks that we're, you know, I'll quote actually Admiral Paparo here, who runs the Indo-Pacific Command.

You know, we've heard of the boiling frog analogy, but this is boiling at a pretty rapid rate.

And that's sort of Matt Pottinger's

conjecture as well.

Things are gonna get heated very quickly.

And we should get our game on.

We should be preparing as if something really bad is gonna happen soon.

Hopefully it doesn't.

Nobody wants to be in another forever war, but we should be preparing as if something may happen.

Yep.