Steve Yates
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8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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would intervene, just sort of whether and how.
But that's now expanded beyond just the United States to allies of the United States in the north with Japan, that people just, if you don't live in that area or don't look a lot at maps, you'd be forgiven for forgetting or never knowing that there's sovereign Japanese territory just a few hundred miles off of Taiwan.
I mean, Japan is really an archipelago that has a lot of small islands to its south that come very, very close to Taiwan.
in fact, closer to Taiwan than mainland China is in one instance.
And then same goes for the north of the Philippines.
They have a lot of islands to the north of the Philippines that come very, very close.
And so if China is going to have this blockade-like or intimidation campaign, it really can't do it without stepping on the toes of those other allies.
And that's somewhat of a new wrinkle in this.
For sure.
And I mean, the signals intelligence and other kinds of intelligence harvest they get from this constant presence is not for nothing.
That is also at a new normal.
And of course, they use what people would regularly recognize as surveillance or military kinds of platforms.
But they also have this sort of gray zone fleet of what are supposed to be civilian fishing vessels, but obviously have more than civilian capabilities.
And they're out in huge, huge numbers.
And from time to time, they will have orchestrated formations that can look exactly like a line on a map, which wouldn't happen sort of spontaneously if you're just a bunch of a very well-tanned fishermen off trying to exploit the seas.
And so and the other part of it, too.
that really should have gotten more notice is that they have shown up on the Pacific Ocean side of Taiwan and the Pacific Ocean side of Japan and also the Pacific Ocean side of Australia, which are things that didn't used to happen.
So they're not necessarily breaking any records about proof of joint concepts of abilities to operate.
Some of the technology that they've developed and deployed, they've given to the likes of Iran, and it's gotten smoked very quickly when not just ours, but some of our allied capabilities come up against it.
But I don't think they're giving their best to their friends.
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