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#209 Xi Jinping Will Do Whatever It Takes to Get Taiwan | Ian Easton

China Unscripted

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The Importance of Taking Xi Jinping at His Word

If the PRC is going to be looking for a trigger to justify their invasion, then shouldn't the US just try to avoid triggering China? But the problem with that approach is they can come up with any trigger they want. They could invent one. I mean, they could fire a missile at themselves and say the Taiwanese fired it at them. Or they could blow up something in China and blame it on the Taiwanese. These kind of, there's a term of art for maybe false flag operations. It's like a Reichstag fire type situation. And so I think it comes to this fundamental debate that exists regarding the intentions of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.

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