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2022 Reshaped the U.S. Relationship With Russia, China

The NPR Politics Podcast

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China's Military Modernization Is Going to Be More Effective Than F-16s

CNN's John Defterios asks if the US is trying to make Taiwan into a porcupine so it would be hard for China to invade and take them over. He says there has been this sort of not quite a sleepwalking project to continue to fund Taiwan's military, sell them F-16s. But now he says they're looking towards things that maybe are more cost-effective than F- 16s but are going to be more effective. "China also has the problem of 100 miles of ocean between Taiwan and the mainland, which complicates any kind of an invasion"

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