Former Senior CIA Analysts on China: Chris Johnson and John Culver
Intelligence Matters
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The Chinese Response to Speaker Polose's Visit to Tiananmen
Samer yove: Why did the chinese respond aggressively to speaker polose's visit? What are the factors that drove them to do that? He says there were really three primary factors. The first was bajing in the polat bureau's perception that the united states, through what the chinese have recently been referring to as slami slicing tactics. And i think that's a natural follow on to the second factor, which was unawareness on the part of shijimpingan and his pola bureau colleagues that pelose's visit may, in fact, be a harbinger of things to come.
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