Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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He definitely pushed for this 2027 be ready kind of notion.
There was never any correction or pushback.
on that floating and going through America through congressional testimony, through official reports that come from the Pentagon.
And so the Chinese would have pushed back if they didn't want that out there.
At the same time, though, it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to invade.
Now, my point of view is 2027 isn't here yet.
They do always, every single day of 2026 and of 2027, they have the ability to hit, cause a crisis,
What they don't control is the blowback.
And I think the blowback now is potentially bigger because Taiwan is now, I think, the fifth most valuable stock exchange on the planet.
It is, I think, the fourth largest trading partner of the United States of America and many other countries too.
And now neighbors have been provoked because of China's encroachment on their territorial waters.
Well, this isn't really seen as internal politics by China.
It's seen as a broader power play that's hostile to the interests of other allies.
And so I think that the levers that Xi Jinping thought he had to be prepared by 2027 have changed.
And also in Taiwan, there's been, I think, a greater sense of a need for resiliency.
Imperfect, and they definitely still have a ways to go.
But even as you were alluding to, these different exercises, Chinese learn by watching how Taiwan reacts.
But Taiwan's public has also learned it costs them to do it.
They can't have a low base, all volunteer force.
They have to have more people conscripted.
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