EPISODE 444： HUMAN EVENTS SPECIAL - CHINA FILES PT. 6 - THE ART OF THE DRAGON
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The China Files: Part 6 - The Art of the Dragon China has been on a warpath for a long time, and we re here to break it all down. Part 1: China's military drills around Taiwan, part 2: Bricks Dumps the U.S. Dollar, part 3: War with China, Nightmare Scenario.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. Today is a Human
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Events special, The China Files Part 6, The Art of the Dragon. Today is April 13th, 2023,
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Anno Domini. Here's what we're going to break down on today's special. Part 1, The Art of the
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Dragon. Part 2, Bricks Dumps the U.S. Dollar. Part 3, War with China, Nightmare Scenario. All this is
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Taiwan said on Wednesday it had successfully urged China to drastically narrow its plan
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to close airspace north of the island, thereby averting wider travel disruption
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in a period of high tension in the region due to China's military exercises.
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China has not commented on the no-fly zone, but South Korea, which was briefed on the plans,
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said the decision was taken due to an object falling from a satellite launch vehicle.
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Beijing originally notified Taipei it would impose a no-fly zone for three days from April 16th to 18th,
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but Taiwan said this was later reduced to a period of just 27 minutes on Sunday morning after it
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protested. The development follows days of intense military drills that China has staged around Taiwan
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in response to President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last
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week. It was against this backdrop that word of the airspace closure stoked fears of travel disruption
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across the region. When China imposed airspace restrictions during military drills
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last August, there were significant disruptions to flights in the region.
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The art of the dragon. You know, a lot of people look at the Chinese Communist Party,
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they look at the rise of China, they look at Xi Jinping, but they don't talk about the strategy.
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They don't talk about the tactics being employed. What is the strategy? We've said it again and again
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so many times, one belt, one road, the dragon stretching its wings to envelop the entire world.
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That's what's been going on right in front of our eyes all along. And while we are wrapped up in the
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emotions of the moment, while we're arresting the head of our political opposition, while we're cracking
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down on dissidents and dissident media, what's Beijing doing? What's the dragon up to? Oh,
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the wings are being spread further and further. And whether it's Iran, whether it's Saudi Arabia,
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whether it's Brazil, whether it's Mexico, by the way, as we keep pointing out, even Mexico is entering
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into this new economic agreement with our greatest rival. Okay. Well, what's going on in Taiwan? Because
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we keep hearing about, is Taiwan about to fall to China? Is China about to invade? Are they going
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to start bombing the place? Are they going to envelop it? Are they going to see blockades? Are we going
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to see amphibious assaults? What's going to happen? The cyber attacks, the financial attacks,
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the disinformation spread by the 50 cent army, the Wumao army out of China, what's going to happen?
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Well, look at this. So China announced this weekend that they were planning a three day
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no fly zone across the entire Taiwan street. They were going to shut down all traffic. And we told you
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this is about the maritime interdiction operations. I keep saying in a war room, I keep saying it here.
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This is about the commercial shipping to Taiwan. And don't think for a second that it's not because
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what are they going to do? They're going to starve them out. These are siege tactics. 85% to 90% of
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Taiwan's energy is supplied by imports. Their food is supplied by imports. What happens when you can't
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power your homes? What happens when you can't power your hospitals? How are you going to fight?
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How are you going to keep going without any energy? That's what this comes down to. And they're going
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to go after the commercial shipping lines. They're going to go after the insurance. They're going to
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go after Swiss, Swiss re and the reinsurance, the unionized captains that are going to say,
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I'm not going there because I don't make enough money to run a blockade of the people's liberation
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army Navy. It's not worth it. So what did China just announced for the first time? A no fly zone
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and a no sale zone. They announced it for three days, but now we see the headline out of Taipei
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this morning. Taiwan says that it's convinced China to rein in its no fly zone plan. Okay. Hold on a
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second. What does that mean? Taiwan stated that they had successfully urged China to drastically narrow
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its plan to close airspace, averting wider travel disruptions in a period of high tension in the
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region. China has no longer commented on the, on these plans, but South Korea would, that was also
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briefed said the decision was taken due to a falling object relating to a launch vehicle.
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Beijing initially notified, notified Taipei that it would impose a no fly zone from April 16 to 18.
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But Taiwan's transportation ministry said this was later reduced to a period of just 27 minutes
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on Sunday morning due to quote China's aerospace activity zone. Aerospace activity. We'll see exactly
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what that means. But do you understand what they just did here? The CCP just got the entire world,
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including Taipei to agree to a no fly zone. They're setting the precedent.
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They've set a new precedent. Do you really think they expected to get away with three days? No,
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but now they got you to agree right in front of all of our eyes to a no fly zone. Do you think this is
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going to be the first time the supreme art of war is to defeat your enemies without firing a single
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shot? The supreme art of war is to defeat your enemies without firing a single shot. And look,
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do you think, do you really think that the CCP doesn't read Sun Tzu? Do you think they don't
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understand their own military strategy, their greatest military strategist of all time?
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Well, you better wake up and watch because that's exactly the game that they're running.
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That's exactly the plan that they're using. They're using it for one belt, one road. They're using it
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for the Belt and Road Initiative. They're using it for the Maritime Silk Road, and they're using it right
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here with the snow fly zone vis-a-vis Taiwan. Wake up and understand what time it is.
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We are seeing the art of the dragon. The wings are being spread. Oh, yes.
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And nobody is lifting a finger to talk about the economic repercussions of reining them in.
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We're going to talk about that in the next segment here, because instead of anyone trying to rein them
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in, it looks more and more and more like everybody wants to join them because it's simple.
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The United States, the West, in our hubris, in our short-sightedness, we enabled this,
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we allowed it, and we are going to suffer because of it.
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Is the United States dollar under threat? Well, the U.S. dollar became the backbone of the global
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economy after World War II because of America's robust economy, its democracy, and its transparent
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regulatory systems, which made the nation seem like a safe place for international investors.
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But now the BRICS nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa have announced plans
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to develop a new currency. Their goal is to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar and other
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Western currencies as well and protect themselves from international pressure. In fact, Brazil and
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China have already struck a deal to bypass the dollar when paying for trade goods, which is a major
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milestone in Beijing's long-term plans to establish its own currency, the yuan, as the dominant
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international currency. So what will this new currency look like and what will it mean for the dollar?
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President Luiz Lula of Brazil has just arrived in China. And what's the very first thing he said
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to kick off his state visit as he landed in Beijing? It was Brazil. Bolsonaro was the president there,
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but something happened to him and now he's not in office anymore. And Lula was plucked out of prison
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or he was in prison for corruption. They brought him out. The communists on the Supreme Court
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made him the president again. And now all of a sudden Lula is in China. And what's the very first thing he
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says? From the Financial Times of London front page, Brazil's Lula calls for an end to the U.S.
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dollar trade dominance. The leftist president is now lending his voice to Beijing's efforts to boost
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the Renminbi's role. That's the Chinese yuan, also known as the Renminbi. Renminbi translates to the
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people's money, their role in global commerce. President Lula has called on developing countries to work
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towards replacing the U.S. dollar with their own currencies in international trade. This is called the
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de-dollarization strategy. The dragon is striking. Now, 20 years ago, this was a pipe dream. This was not
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something that was possible just because of U.S. standing in the world. But you see now they're
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going to walk forward because there wasn't a big enough economic player out there in the world
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that stood against the U.S. U.S. was top dog. But somehow there became a big player that stood against
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the U.S. that stood against the U.S. dollar. And how did they get there? Oh, that's right. Because our elites
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transferred all of our wealth to Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Beijing, Guangzhou, the Three Gorges Dam,
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all the mega projects of China, all the Chinese cities. Why do you think they look like that? And what do we get
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in return? We get New York City with 120-year-old subways. We get Detroit looking the way it does.
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We get Chicago where everybody's catching stray bullets. We get Washington, D.C. where there's
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mass shooting after mass shooting after mass shooting. Our cities are crumbling. Our infrastructure
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is crumbling. And meanwhile, China's underage. Why? Because our elites did this. And now, what's
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China doing? They've turned around, and I keep saying this, they don't want to be junior partner
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anymore. They realized that all we thought we were playing them. They were playing us. That's how
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stupid our elites are. Our elites thought that nothing could ever happen, that the game would
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never change. They would go on, and they would be the slave labor of China forever, and the CCP would
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be a willing partner. Well, guess what? This is what happens when you trust communists. This is what
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happens when you take communists at their word. And Lula's a communist too. Here you go. Here's
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the speech that Lula gave in Shanghai. Every night, I ask myself why all countries have to base their
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trade on the U.S. dollar. Lula said in a speech at the New Development Bank of Shanghai, also known as
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the BRICS Bank. Why can't we do trade based on our own currencies? Drawing loud applause from the audience
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of Brazilian and Chinese dignitaries. Who was it? I mean, you listen to this speech. Who was it that
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decided that the dollar was the currency after the disappearance of the gold standard? They're over
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there yucking it up. And guess what? Our elites don't care. They've already got their money. This is
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going to come down on the little people. This is going to come down on the little guy. Do you mean to tell
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me for a second you don't think this was China's plan? When you hear BRICS, think CCP. When you hear
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BRICS, think China. They are synonymous. This is the China-led economic dominance. And they're
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winning. I'm just going to say right now, BRICS is winning. China's winning. They're absolutely
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winning. They're winning so much they're running the table. They're actually running the table
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because they've got Russia in a position where Russia is totally locked in with Ukraine. Russia
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doesn't have economic deals or trade anywhere outside of BRICS. So they're locked into BRICS. You get it?
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Nord Stream, that's sitting at the bottom of the Baltic. That leverage, gone. Any economic
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direct ties that they have with Europe, gone. The only way they can get any economic access
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back to Europe is through who? Through China. You get it? The house always wins. If you build
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the house, you can't lose because everybody, when they come to play, they got to come to your
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house. That's what China's done. And our elites, they set it up. Look, I get it. When I was over
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in Shanghai, when I worked at the American Chamber of Commerce, just still in college, basically an
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entry-level gig, I had a Chinese guy who came to me and said, you know what?
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At the time, the exchange rate was 1 to 8. So 1 US dollar to 8 Chinese yuan, renminbi. And he said to
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me, our dream is for it to be 1 to 8 the other way. 1 Chinese yuan for 8 US dollars. And you know what?
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China's military says that it is ready to fight after completing three days of large-scale combat
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exercise around Taiwan. The exercises followed the Taiwanese president's trip to the U.S. last week.
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And now in an exclusive interview, Taiwan's foreign minister tells CNN's chief national security
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correspondent Jim Schueter that China is, quote, trying to get ready to launch a war against Taiwan.
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Jim is with us now. Boy, those are sobering words, to put it mildly.
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Well, I'll tell you. We watch these exercises from the outside with alarm. The scale of them,
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the apparent target here, right? A military attack on invasion of Taiwan. So I asked the
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foreign minister, how does Taiwan look at these exercises from the inside and with genuine alarm and
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seriousness? Because what they see in the scale of these things and the seriousness are preparations,
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training for a military attack on the island. There's genuine concern there.
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Biological warfare, economic warfare, nuclear warfare, cultural warfare.
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President Trump has been reminding us of the N-word a lot lately. No, not that one.
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The nuclear word. And we've been hearing it again and again, haven't we? Particularly from Russia.
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But that's on the table. And the Epoch Times has a great report out right now.
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China is prepared for war in Taiwan, but is the U.S. ready for a war with China? Would the U.S. win? Are we
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even prepared to wage a war like that? What is the nightmare scenario of a war between the U.S. and China?
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Because I'll tell you right now, we don't want that. You don't want to see that. You don't want
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your kids to see that. You don't want anyone to have to experience that. We do what we do
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by putting out this information. And I know I've been accused by people who I think are well-meaning
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of saying that I want a war with China. I said, no, no, no, quite the opposite.
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When I describe war with China, I'm describing it from a position of you don't want this. That's
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the last thing the world wants. That's the last thing China wants. And that's definitely
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the last thing we want for our children. You do not want that fight. You want to get it
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to the point where we use our economic leverage, our cultural leverage, cyber, whatever else we
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have to prevent that from ever occurring, ever occurring. If that means stealing their secrets
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and leaking them out across the internet, great. All for it. Let's do it all day long. In fact,
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that's my former profession. But listen to this. I'm just going to read this opener from the Epoch
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Times. I think it's fantastic what they've written.
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The ammunition is running low. Casualties are immense. Medical and other critical supplies
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have not come for weeks, and a nuclear attack on the American homeland is imminent. It's a dramatic
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scene more closely resembling a Hollywood drama than any war that the United States has actually
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fought in the last half century. It's nevertheless what many expect a war between the United States
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and communist China could look like. Both the U.S. and China are investing record-breaking sums building up
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their military capabilities. Leadership on both sides appears to consider such a conflict as
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inevitable despite rhetoric to the otherwise, because you keep hearing it. You keep hearing them
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saying that the United States will go to war with China over Taiwan. The United States will go to war
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with China over Taiwan. Really? Really? How is that working out for us in Ukraine right now? How's the
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Ukrainian proxy war going on? How's that ammunition working out for us? How many billions, what, $150
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billion that we've currently sent? And by the way, make sure you sign the petition at defundthewar.com
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to end the war in Ukraine because Americans can't afford it, and that money should be used right here
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at home. And we're going to need that because we need all the economic leverage we can muster
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in order to bring down, wean the U.S. economy off of China, decouple from them completely,
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because this war that we're talking about, a war with China, would be like nothing that we've ever
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seen before. Just nothing like we've ever seen before. And when you look, I'm going through this
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article right now here from the Epoch Times. The CCP's military wing, the People's Liberation Army,
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has been working tirelessly to expand and enhance the regime's nuclear arsenal and to hold the U.S.
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homeland at threat. The regime is expected to field 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2050, many of them
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capable, by the end of this decade, many of them capable of carrying multiple warheads with
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hypersonic bombardment systems apparently designed to be used as a first strike weapon. Let me tell you
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something right now and be very clear about this. The United States does not have the capability to
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block a hypersonic missile. We don't. We simply don't have it. That thing will get through. Now,
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do we have second strike capability? You betcha. So that's that means our submarine launched
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nuclear missiles. So do you want to blow up the world? We could. Do you want to blow up China,
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blow up the United States? We could. I'd much rather not, though. I'd much rather the United States
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keep on existing. And if that means China has to exist, too, then so be it. Right. We are not the
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bloodthirsty ones here. We don't want to let those bloodthirsty tendencies and ambitions that all
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people have be the ones that guide our judgment and make our decisions. We don't want to go down
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that road. Trust me. Nobody wants to go down that road. People talk about the distance. Obviously,
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you saw the island hopping. You saw the immense. Look at the immense fatality rates that we sustained
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on those islands in the sacred island hopping campaign of World War Two. Iwo Jima, Guam.
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Thousands and thousands of people died taking those islands. Do you want to get into another
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situation like that? No, I don't think so, especially in a situation with a country that's
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got nuclear weapons. No, we don't. That is why that we've we've established this website,
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defund the war dot com. Go and sign that up, because even though that's about Ukraine, it's
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about sending a larger message that the United States and the people of this country are not
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interested in using kinetic warfare to seek our political goals. We have it there as an option
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to defend ourselves, but only to defend ourselves only in response. Never first. We are not going to
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do that. And we're not going to seek proxy wars in two fronts at the same time as Mearsheimer warned
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us. Make sure you are subscribed to this podcast, to Human Events Daily. We're going to be continuing
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America's voice because this is the critical moment. Are we trying to risk the future of our
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very children in going into a war like this? The art of the dragon must be dealt with, with
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the art of the eagle. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.