Steve Yates
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8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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Why are they not in the street?
And I think they have an answer to that.
We are just not able to hear it.
And if we could, I think that might reassure us
more Americans and maybe others in the international community about what we're really dealing with as we try to transition from the major military options.
Thanks very much.
Well, you're right about them sort of establishing a new normal.
It has some limits.
So analytically, I would basically support the idea that they have very successfully deployed a pressure campaign that tries to normalize the very frequent presence of
Increasingly advanced People's Liberation Army capabilities around Taiwan that's on surface vessels, subsurface vessels and air vessels, usually just tickling up against the boundaries of what would be considered territorial waters around Taiwan.
But occasionally they will violate those rules-based international order norms and will cross in and try to inflict some, it's not terror necessarily, because the people of Taiwan have lived with the reality that they could be hit.
destroyed in any number of ways for decades.
And so they go about their everyday lives with this stuff going on.
But what they've done is for the huge percentage of the world that depends on container shipping traffic that goes around the waterways of Taiwan, 50% of all global container shipping traffic transits the waters that are within reasonable range of Taiwan.
They've made it somewhat normal for the presence of Chinese Communist Party
military vessels being in that mix.
And they've also sort of normalized the idea that they'll conduct military exercises and circle with the impression of boycotting or creating some kind of a blockade around Taiwan.
And so that definitely is a new normal.
For most of my career, it was very episodic where you'd see these kinds of demonstration that China reserves the right to use force.
There's never really a question about whether the U.S.
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