Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Steve Yates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, when you're working in intelligence, government, policymaking, diplomacy, whatever the different angles might be, and you've got a hard target that doesn't exactly open its kimono and let you explore everything just frivolously and get good answers on a lot of different stuff.
You're making approximations.
And so our targets know this.
And so there's a lot of things that they put out there for the general discourse, which in the terms familiar to you may be meant to influence more than to inform.
And so there have been some articles that would go out in party literature.
They might come from the Central Party School.
They might go through the state-owned media platforms.
They might pick a favorite American egghead professor to write an interesting article that sounds like it's coming from America, but it's really coming from what their key findings were from the super spectacular trip they took to the PRC.
just brought back for them.
And through these various channels, no one has sort of been able to give the video evidence, the audio evidence, or authoritative written in Xi Jinping's name evidence that he said, I want to be able to invade Taiwan by 2027.
But basically the broad mandate was,
We got it.
We've been behind the eight ball and being able to convince people or even ourselves that we have the capability to do this.
And there are rational voices in the PLA that are hesitant about this because anyone who knows anything about real military should be hesitant.
This is harder than D-Day.
And I think Ukraine should be a sobriety checkpoint for Chinese hubris about what big continental powers capabilities are to project.
That's over a land border.
This sea border is bigger.
And I don't think that Japan or the Philippines will stay on the sidelines.
I think that's kind of where Xi Jinping missed the mark.
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