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Putin simulates a nuclear strike & what is Xi Jinping really thinking?

Ukraine: The Latest

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What Kind of Lessons Do You Think the Chinese Leadership Are Taking?

When China looks at the war at the invasion of Ukraine and sees what is happening to the Russian military, it then looks east and looks to Taiwan. This has been actually very instructive for China to review their playbook by looking at how the West responded to Russia. Now China can take that and have some sense of what might happen if they were to move on Taiwan. They can make some preparations in that front. The second question is, would the Chinese military be able to do it? We don't know. Xi Jinping perhaps doesn't even know himself because the Chinese military is not very much tested in combat. That's entirely possible. Would we see something where they're really embarrassed when they

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