Stephen McDonald
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54 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 May
Stephen McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Instead, what's it doing?
It's getting closer to China.
And again, this is all just win, win, win, win, win for the Chinese government.
And I think they are being listened to by President Trump.
Yes, potentially.
But right now, I think even President Trump and the people around him don't think that that's the case.
So I think the policy right now, as much as we can defer it, is containment.
Containment.
Give us time.
What about issues of the economic conditions and having the means to be able to lift sanctions and things?
According to journalists on Pingtan Island, which is close to Taiwan, volleys of rockets were fired into the air from mainland China this morning.
As the People's Liberation Army exercises move into the second day, live fire operations have been increased on all sides of Taiwan.
The Chinese military says it's carrying out simulated strikes and a dress rehearsal for a blockade of the territory Beijing considers a rogue province.
US President Donald Trump said he wasn't worried by the mass exercises as they'd happened before.
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