Episode 634: Looking West to the Taiwan Strait, with Dean Cheng
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China's Military, Army, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force, Strategic Sport Force
China hasn't fought war since 19 79. So we really don't have a good sense of how their military will operate when the rubber meets the road. China is unique in that regard, because it is a continental power and land power dependent on the seas. This is a navy that is building combatants at a far highr rate than anyone else in the world. It's interesting to consider that 80 years ago, a us. Marines went ashore at guadal canal a after the battles in the coral sea. midway, really pretty much put pay to the assumption that the japanese were just going to turn tail and run or be defeated. I fear thatwe we sometimes still have some of
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