| 04:32 |
mats |
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chinatalk/id1289062927?i=1000619137220 |
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~ 8 hours 47 minutes ~ |
| 13:20 |
asciilifeform |
mats: is there a text version ? |
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~ 4 hours 57 minutes ~ |
| 18:17 |
mats |
there's no transcript, but his entry in a report is on pg31 https://www.nbr.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/publications/sr96_meeting_chinas_military_challenge_jan2022.pdf |
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~ 52 minutes ~ |
| 19:10 |
asciilifeform |
mats: ty. loox to be characteristically ponderous/washingtonical |
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~ 55 minutes ~ |
| 20:05 |
mats |
the podcast interview is a lot more witty and to the point |
| 20:06 |
mats |
where the problems are -- DPP, the ruling party, has been systematically starving the military of resources and readiness, buying useless equipment, and endlessly parroting that the americans will definitely come to help them in the event of invasion |
| 20:08 |
mats |
if there was an adult in the leadership, they would tell them that the americans are certainly not coming and it is irresponsible, stupid, shortsighted to expect their support, that the only rational long term defense planning is the assumption that us/jp/kr/ph etc will NOT come to their ad |
| 20:08 |
mats |
aid* and not to plan accordingly |
| 20:11 |
mats |
it is a little funny to go from f16 procurement to f35, but it does make sense when it comes to hasty emergency runway construction |
| 20:12 |
mats |
he makes a good point about taiwan's reliance on lng, i criticised the move away from nuclear for the same logistics security reasons |
| 20:15 |
mats |
he's written about tw military deficiencies for some time, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20230129135404/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/china-threat-invasion-conscription-taiwans-military-is-a-hollow-shell |