Steve Yates
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8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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into their military and better trained for longer periods of time.
Because if you have pilot hours who have to go up and respond to these sorties, they'll run out of pilots and pilot hours.
And so they've recognized some gaps that they have to fill.
And that pendulum swing is net advantage for Team Freedom, First Island Chain, not so much advantage for Xi Jinping's 2027 plans.
I question whether they have that sort of safe space to express the truth.
I don't think that Xi Jinping is the kind of guy that Jack Nicholson like can handle the truth.
And he's eighth grade educated.
He was smart enough in power politics, people politics and ruthless enough to climb to the top of the world's largest, most well-sourced mafia.
But I don't think of him as a wonder kid of strategery.
He has had this sort of brute force model.
It's been subtle enough to allow for coercion rather than just ground and bound.
But.
I think that a lot of those guys that know about intelligence know about what's happening in Taiwan.
And, you know, Taiwan now admits there's plenty of penetration inside Taiwan where there have been PLA operatives and Chinese intelligence operatives in Taiwan.
They know a lot of the truth.
And I think some of the hesitancy in their system is because some of the system knows the truth of how hard this is becoming for them.
But that's also provoked the urgency.
They don't see time necessarily as their friend.
So they might want to try to do some things, maybe not to destroy Taiwan, but to try to see whether they can coerce concessions.
whether they can coerce the United States or some of the rest of the international community into concessions where they can consolidate gains that buy them more time.
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