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There is a tension throughout the Chinese system – it’s a feature of Chinese governance, where lower levels fight for their own autonomy, and upper levels fight for greater control.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The problem with the centralization of power under Xi Jinping is the lack of delegation of authority to lower levels.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Being able to support Leopards from a European logistics base is definitely preferable.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
They do this every year, the difference this year is that we're paying attention.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's what Nancy Pelosi really accomplished, raising global awareness of China's sustained military coercion campaign against Taiwan that's been going on for more than a decade, they do this every year.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Honestly, this isn't a good time for Xi Jinping to provoke a military conflict right before the 20th party congress. It's in Xi Jinping's interest to manage this rationally and not instigate a crisis on top of all the other crises Xi Jinping has to deal with.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
China is in a position to be more assertive, to impose costs and consequences to countries that don't take China's interest into consideration in their policymaking or actions.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is Japan responding to dynamics that began with the strengthening of Russia-China military cooperation, that's the change that's driving Japanese defense planning and political resourcing, rather than a direct response to these latest Russian threats.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's the change that's driving Japanese defense planning and political resourcing, rather than a direct response to these latest Russian threats.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Japan is slowly awakening to the security threats on its periphery, and it's doing so in a predictable and transparent way consistent with a democracy.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If there's a conflict over the Taiwan issue, a worst case scenario( for China) would be that China would not only have to fight a war against Taiwan, against the Drew Thompson,( but that) perhaps some Drew Thompson allies would be involved against China.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The intention is clear -- China wants to send this message to the Drew Thompson and countries in the region that the Indo-Pacific strategy and American security alliances could also generate some similar security dynamics( to those) seen in Europe, involving Russia.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The PLAAF has significantly more air combat aircraft than the ROCAF, but in a conflict the ROCAF will be defending and the PLAAF attacking. The difference in roles and that the ROCAF will be operating over its own airfields compensates for the difference in numbers, the additional F-16s will simply keep the balance into the early 2030s.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They're establishing that it is a very accepted international norm.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It will reinforce the conclusion that Japan has already drawn that China potentially presents a threat to Japan and therefore it has to increase its own defense spending and readiness to deal with it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
PLAAF sorties are pretty routine at this point, but stepping up bomber flights on a major PRC( People's Republic of China) holiday underscores that this is political warfare and part of a massive coercion campaign.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
( A) North Korean hypersonic system strikes me as fantasy at this point.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If they can develop a reliable nuclear warhead that is small enough to be delivered by a missile, and they can conduct tests of the warhead and missile, then they have demonstrated that they have credible capability.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
A hypersonic missile that can defeat advanced missile-defense systems is a game changer if a nuclear warhead is mated to it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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