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📍 Podcast with Col Bashir (Special Operations) China gives us weapon systems which we usually deploy on Indian front, meanwhile Pakistan remains focused on acquiring US weapons for Counterterrorism. Col Bashir rightly pointed that China would empower us that would serve their purpose and strengthen our deterrence against India...

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During an interview at the Hoover Institution on 15 Nov 2023, Elbridge Colby and Dan Blumenthal explain why the United States has become obsessed with containing China and curtailing its economic development. In a nutshell, a prosperous China would deprive the US of its global economic control as well as the ability to rewrite rules and to rob other countries. For the US, it's a zero-sum game in which America's imperial empire mentality is projected onto China, and every other nation is subservient to America's national interests. This perspective essentially disregards the advantages of a collaborative and multipolar global order. According to Colby and Blumenthal, the US would be locked out of "economic arrangements" inside East Asia which have the potential to boom and to be the center of future global economic activity. The US military would be reduced to defending the North American Hemisphere and would be locked out of East Asia, but the US would really need access to East Asia to secure itself (economically), or else Americans would be poorer as a prosperous China would re-orient the world towards Asia. China would have the best Universities, its companies would be world's best, its treasury would be able to enforce sanctions against everyone else, its stock exchange would be the world's best, its currency would supplant the USD - which means we Americans will become a lot poorer. As America would be forced to play ball, in the same way that today many companies and other countries are forced to play ball with US sanctions even tough they don't want to. That would mean Americans will become lot poorer as our companies, institutions would be no longer the top ones, and then we become less free as America would loose its global economic control When asked if the US can accept that a great rich China dominates its own region vs dominating the planet, their conclusion is that the US can't live with either scenario because East Asia is just so fundamentally important to US national security

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How to quickly deter China from invading Taiwan — my interview with Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries Ethan is one of the brightest, most thoughtful people I've ever met. I believe his ideas on defending the US, including our interests in Taiwan, are urgently needed. 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