12 Burst results for "People's Liberation Army Navy"
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"His basic view after the Chinese got involved in the war in the fall and winter of 1950, and then famously after the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, was that we should either get out or we should be all in. And we shouldn't put operational or tactical restrictions on our troops and we should be allowed to do things like bomb Chinese logistical supply lines in Manchuria. Now, the argument against that was a real one, which is that we didn't want to risk general war. But I do think it's fair to say that our hesitancy then results in what is the most overlooked period of the Korean War, which is the fighting that endured for two years as we negotiated under the UN cloak, to use Fehrenbach's phrase. We had over 500 meetings with the North Koreans and the Chinese and others in order to negotiate the armistice agreement. But at the same time, Americans were dying in large numbers on all these hills. They were playing king of the mountain with the Chinese and with the North Koreans in places like Baldy, Gloucester, famously Pork Chop Hill, Heartbreak Ridge. And so I think it is fair to say that the limitations we placed on our behavior may have prolonged the war, ultimately setting the stage for Eisenhower to declare in the 1952 campaign, I shall go to Korea, which he then does and ultimately negotiates the armistice in the early months of 1953 or really the summer of 1953. Aaron McClain penultimate question. I'll go back to the chairman after this for the concluding one. What would you do if you had a magic wand? What would you do to deter Xi and the People's Liberation Army and the People's Liberation Army Navy from attacking Taiwan? Sure thing, and I need to apologize because for some reason I can't hear what Chairman Gallagher is contributing. I trust him completely, so I endorse everything he has to say. But you should stop me if I start to cover any of the same ground that he has. Look, the first thing I think is defense spending is too low and it's drifting in the wrong direction. We need to get back up to Reagan era levels of defense spending, pushing up towards 7 percent, I would say as a minimum to be credible. And then we of course we need to spend it on the right kind of systems. I commend to your listeners, Chairman Gallagher had a brilliant Wall Street Journal op-ed a few months ago about building a quote unquote anti-navy, essentially a kind of equivalent to the PLA rocket force, which is the military force on the other side of this equation. They have spent the last several decades, I mean, they are building a Navy, but they've also built a network of missile systems, short intermediate range as well as pushing into some long range systems that are meant to do what we in the United States would call anti-access area denial work, to keep our ships and resources out of the operational area around Taiwan should there be a war there. We should answer that. We need to be denying their opportunity or ability to operate in the same space with our own short intermediate and long range weapon systems. We have them, we don't have enough of them. And I think if anything, the war in Ukraine has shown that we should be glad in a way that it showed us this in time, that we have a munitions crisis, our stockpiles are not up to the test. So enough spending, spending on the right things. And there's other items we could talk about in a stockpile of munitions is where I would focus if we're talking purely about military deterrence.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"I have two more questions. Mr Vice president one the debates begin in august. I know you'll qualify to be on the stage I'm sure people I don't even know what your website is. What's your website? Mr vice president for the campaign 2024 .com. Thank you mike pence 2024 .com. I'm sure you'll be on the stage I hope i'm asking questions, but I don't know that the former president can engage in debates without legal peril That's part of this problem. Do you think he can I I just don't think he can Well, I I just I I don't uh Look, I I think debates are vitally important and I I You know people have asked me a couple of times. They said, uh, how would you ever feel about debating donald trump? In the republican primary debates and I said I've debated donald trump many times Every day just not with the cameras on so no look I look i'm very confident that we'll be able to Accommodate the republican party will do a great job pulling those debates together We'll be able to accommodate and make sure that uh that the former president The former vice president everybody else that qualifies would be able to be on that stage Now believe it or not when we scheduled this interview it was going to be all about china Not only are you the former vice president? But you have a son in arms and a son -in -law in arms and you look at the china thing china has opened a Bi -base in cuba according to wall street journal They ran a ship across two of our navy's finest ships and i'm just this is why I hate this indictment We should have been talking about the existential threat to the united states, which is general secretary xi Jinping But I want to close mr Vice president by giving you a chance to opine on that base and on the conduct of the chinese people liberation army navy in the taiwan straits Hugh it's an absolute outrage To hear reports, uh that that china's establishing a spy base in cuba. It's totally unacceptable As i've said we need a new monroe doctrine for the 21st century that essentially says to china to russia to other ford powers That would come into our hemisphere that this is a hemisphere of freedom And and we're going to continue to take steps to ensure that that's the case not only for the security of this country, but the security of the entire Uh hemisphere and I look but thank you for mentioning my son's always, you know, my my son the marine and my my son -in -law Uh, the navy pilot have both deployed. They've deployed in the asia -pacific China is today the greatest economic and strategic threat the united states faces it can only be met with american strength and uh the biden administration today and sadly the deal that they just cut for the debt ceiling Actually puts us in a position where we'll have a one percent cut after inflation and defense spending and it's astonishing you And I want to come back on and talk about it's astonishing at a time when china is floating a new battleship every month the biden administration In the wake of its disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan its weak leadership abroad. It's actually talking about cutting Military spending it's one of the one of the reasons why I had hoped the doj would see their way clear To not move forward with this Indictment, it's not just because it's divisive at home Because I think it has the potential of distracting Uh the american people and distracting the american public debate on the real threats to our country On the wider world stage, uh, and and the challenges we're facing with a crisis at our border millions of people pouring into this country a crime wave in our cities But I promise you as I move forward with our campaign for president of the united states We're going to keep focused on the issues that are impacting the american people And we're going to drive forward a policy that will restore the security and the prosperity of the american people Mr vice president, thank you keep coming back mike pence 2024 .com..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Whereas China just needs to like draw blood out of us basically. Now, bridge Colby, I'm going to come back to you after the break, but I want to make sure we get this in. One of the things when I set up with you, the triggered me on the ruthless podcast, as you said something I had never heard put so bluntly. China is a peer economy. Neither the Soviet Union nor Nazi Germany nor imperial Germany was a peer economy. That's like getting a bucket of cold water in my face because I do this. I'm supposed to know this. I've read the hundred year marathon. I've run on China by Kissinger. I read everything I can. It had never occurred to me. We have never been up against a peer economy. You want to expand on that for a minute or so until the break? I think that's the root of wisdom hue. And if we proceed from that starting point, everything else becomes much more manageable and addressable, because that's the fundamental thing. I mean, not only the Soviet Union, we probably exaggerated its economic size. The United States economy alone was larger than all three of the major Axis powers. So I mean, this is really, really fundamentally different. And not only is it a pure economy, it's the one that has the largest industrial base in shipbuilding capacity. When Japan bomber harbor, and of course, as you pointed out, repeatedly, Robert and Jerry and others and Alex, you know, we already had the two ocean act. Well, that was building on the Detroit deterrent, what was called. That was building on Ford Motor Company in General Motors. China has that now. I think that, honestly, the way I think about it here is I want people to use a term. I want people to try to live in the reality based community a little bit. Bridging about ten minutes I have a new piece over at The Washington Post publish and it begins on paraphrasing. We have not been at this level of strategic deterrence weakness since 1980. I should have said Christmas Eve 1979 when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, the Soviets. And I think we're weaker now than we were in 1941 and 1917 in terms of deterring nation state adversaries. Do you agree or disagree with that? I think so. I think if you look at the numbers, I mean, we have a better far more capable military standing military than we did in 1941. Of course, we were building up. But when we look at the sort of the potential for a direct attack on the United States, it's grim, I would say, certainly going back to the beginning of World War II, even in the kind of lowest days of the Carter administration deterrence held in Europe. But I think there's real thought that it could fail in the Pacific. And I mean, I just think, why aren't we, why are we having a national mobilization to fix all these defense industry problems that we see? And people say that China is the biggest threat. Well, if it's the biggest threat, Xi Jinping is given direct orders for the PLA to be ready, shouldn't we take him seriously? That's not a prediction. That's just basic common sense. No, no, I refer to him as general secretary Xi, because I want people to understand he's a Leninist. And people call him president Xi. And I do not like that because it implies a certain legitimacy. We called bris Nev general secretary brezhnev. And we knew what that meant. And I think beginning in the Trump years with a speech by vice president Pence and ending with Mike Pompeo at the Nixon library, the strategic vision of the United States was recast. They are a peer competitor and you are the one who brought to my light the economy side. Now your book, a strategy of denial. I haven't read it yet. I got to read it. But I also am a little bit suspicious about any book because it takes so long to edit and the picture changes so quickly. How do you stay abreast of what's going on in the Chinese Communist Party and particularly in the People's Liberation Army and the People's Liberation Army navy? Well, thanks to you and I'm happy to copy, of course. But I actually, unfortunately, I think the book is even more relevant than when it came out about a year and a half ago, because the situation is only become more acute. And what I would say is that my perspective and again, it's not the only perspective I do think it's kind of the most important in getting the fundamentals is the geopolitical perspective. So I'm not the world's expert on what's happening in the PRC or what's going on with the PLA. I think I try to be in conversation and stay abreast. It takes a lot of time these days. I mean, I just think about how much, you know, if you go back 15, 20 years ago, how little news of equivalent sort of gravity there was. I always, the summer before 9 11, I remember I was interning in Washington. There was general levy, shark attacks in New England, and stem cells. And now it's every day it's stuff that's orders of magnitude beyond that. But I think the fundamental point in my book and why I think it remains relevant and really it's kind of my strategy is that it's deductive and it's trying to say, okay, we're no longer starting from the point that you're, I think, rightly rooted in hue, which is we're not the unipol. Whether we ever were, I don't know, but we're not now. China is an equivalent peer. Napoleon is supposed to have said that when China rises the world we're shake. What's more interested in whether Napoleon said it is the fact that Xi Jinping quotes Napoleon saying it, right? So that's what we need to know. And so how do we grapple with that? And what standard do we need to go? What should we focus on? And that's why I try to build this both a strategic side, which is the anti hegemonic coalition, which is balance of power. You go back to Nixon and Eisenhower and so forth and Truman. But then also the military strategy and military strategy denial. And in a sense, I try to make I wouldn't say I make a virtue of my ignorance, but others like a Jerry or Tom shooter can tell you a lot more about the specifics of what we need..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So let me ask you, Jack, do you think a kinetic invasion of Taiwan is imminent? Because a lot of people are speculating that, but it's far from an easy military maneuver. It's a serious island with significant terrain issues. Do you think we're seeing the kind of overtures towards that or is that largely bluster? What are your thoughts? No, Charlie. I don't think so right now because I think what you're going to see more along the lines of. Keep in mind that Taiwan's unique, not unique. I mean, it's an island, right? So it's an island off the coast of China. Truman had this famous quote that if the U.S. ever wanted to invade China, it would essentially be a floating aircraft carrier for us, a physical aircraft carrier. But Taiwan is not Ukraine. China can't just march into there, but also on the back end, we're there to be a kinetic war with Taiwan and the U.S. gets involved. We would also not be able to resupply Taiwan the way that we are able to with Ukraine. There's no physical border between Taiwan and Ukraine has the back door with Poland and Hungary. We can't do that in Taiwan. Essentially, Charlie, what you would see is not necessarily an amphibious assault, which of course would be very bloody. I mean, go look at the history of island hopping, the campaigns in World War two, some of the bloodiest days of the war in the Pacific took place there, taking those islands, even the invasion of Guam, Iwo Jima, et cetera, et cetera. And so when you're looking at this, most effectively, you'd see a blockade of the Chinese military. People's liberation army navy around Taiwan, it would prevent the resupply Charlie. Their food is imported 85% of Taiwan's energy supplies are imported completely imported to that island. So if you don't need to fire a shot and win, you're following sun tzu's most famous adage. And of course, the Chinese military all read sun tzu and they're going through the academy. This is exactly what they want. They'll sit there and say, we will envelop you. We will blockade you. We will not allow any supplies to come to the center and Charlie, what they're going to do is they'll go around to every maritime shipping company in the world and say, your ships are not allowed in here, or they have to be, they will be interdicted by Chinese military vessels. Charlie, they're not going to be able to get the insurance to do that. Swiss Reid is not going to be coming in with the reinsurers. Those captains because the captains are all unionized now. They're not going to come out and say we want to run a Chinese military blockade. What are they going to do? The chambers of commerce around the world and you already starting to see this with the world economic forums whipping boy Emanuel were prone over there in Beijing, saying, you know, we really don't need this. We really need to make sure that we maintain. He says, we shouldn't be dependent on America, which is amazing. It shouldn't be dependent on America. But he doesn't call out the point that he's making Europe dependent on China. And Charlie, I guess I would, I would have to say in response to Emmanuel Macron, is that it shouldn't surprise us that the French were the first to surrender to China. So, I mean, the Taiwan issue seems Kirk. I mean, just from the CCP's perspective, they really think they're going to dominate Taiwan. I mean, they have a different culture..
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is an Invasion of Taiwan Imminent? Jack Posobiec Weighs In
"So let me ask you, Jack, do you think a kinetic invasion of Taiwan is imminent? Because a lot of people are speculating that, but it's far from an easy military maneuver. It's a serious island with significant terrain issues. Do you think we're seeing the kind of overtures towards that or is that largely bluster? What are your thoughts? No, Charlie. I don't think so right now because I think what you're going to see more along the lines of. Keep in mind that Taiwan's unique, not unique. I mean, it's an island, right? So it's an island off the coast of China. Truman had this famous quote that if the U.S. ever wanted to invade China, it would essentially be a floating aircraft carrier for us, a physical aircraft carrier. But Taiwan is not Ukraine. China can't just march into there, but also on the back end, we're there to be a kinetic war with Taiwan and the U.S. gets involved. We would also not be able to resupply Taiwan the way that we are able to with Ukraine. There's no physical border between Taiwan and Ukraine has the back door with Poland and Hungary. We can't do that in Taiwan. Essentially, Charlie, what you would see is not necessarily an amphibious assault, which of course would be very bloody. I mean, go look at the history of island hopping, the campaigns in World War two, some of the bloodiest days of the war in the Pacific took place there, taking those islands, even the invasion of Guam, Iwo Jima, et cetera, et cetera. And so when you're looking at this, most effectively, you'd see a blockade of the Chinese military. People's liberation army navy around Taiwan, it would prevent the resupply Charlie. Their food is imported 85% of Taiwan's energy supplies are imported completely imported to that island. So if you don't need to fire a shot and win, you're following sun tzu's most famous adage. And of course, the Chinese military all read sun tzu and they're going through the academy.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Yeah, congressman Gallagher, I did a 90 minute war game for AEI once at their retreated island and I was the vice president of the United States, which meant I had nothing to do. And so I just sat around and watched them do it. What was the scenario that you played for 90 minutes? It was the Chinese made a kinetic move on Taiwan in an attempt to establish a lodgment quickly that we had so they chose not to do a blockade or take one of the Outlying Islands to try to go for Taiwan itself. We had 30 days of indications and warnings. So we were able to kind of track that this was coming. I'm not sure we'd have that in a real scenario. But because the Secretary of Defense recommended in this case, it was chairman Mike Rogers of the armed services committee to aggressively start sinking Chinese ships and planes early on in the crisis, which by the way, until Americans are dying in a crisis, I question the ability of this commander in chief to take aggressive action. We were able to blunt a lot of the initial invasion, but even then we lost tens of thousands of Americans, and though the Chinese suffered catastrophic losses, they still had hundreds and hundreds of ships in the fight because they have the biggest navy in the world. The war gamers hit the carriers. They did, yes. Survive. In American carriers. At least one of our carriers was sunken and another one was just kept out of the weapons engagement zone, by a lot of the missile systems that the PLA rocket force has been using. You know, interestingly enough, the earlier in the day I went to a Lockheed Martin facility where they build one of these long range missiles. And you know, Mark Montgomery did a fantastic job at the end. They modeled out the 36 different scenarios that would occur depending on what choices the players make. And there were consistent themes across the scenarios where if you invest in certain standoff missiles, long-range strike systems, you can actually start to make this problem much, much harder for the PLA planners, the Chinese military planners. The second thing is, if you invest in interoperability with your allies early on, the Japanese, the Australians, the Philippines, and though not a formal ally, our partners in Taiwan itself. If you figure out the basic warfighting structure, if you start to fight together and not make it up on the fly, things really start to become problematic for the Chinese. So there's some obvious things we can do over the next two years to start to get this thing moving in the right direction. But we don't have a sense of urgency for all the reasons that doctor Hendricks laid out. Now, admiral gilday was on 60 minutes on Sunday Night. And he was decrying our lack of capacity to maintain or build ships. Doctor Hendricks in the essay in the Atlantic said, we're down to a dozen gravets, the kind of peers that you need to build ships that anyone discuss that and will you be holding a hearing for the select committee on the Chinese Communist Party on the People's Liberation Army navy because they're extraordinary expansion brings to mind what the Kaiser did prior to World War I and the teaming up of Putin and G brings to mind the 30s. It does. And, you know, very quickly I'm putting in, 'cause you asked at the outset. I mean, increasingly, we just have to see these two problem sets as connected. I think it would be geopolitical malpractice to try and isolate the problem with Russia and Putin from the problem of Xi Jinping and communist China because obviously they're involved in a no limits partnership. What I've called a new Cold War against us and the collapse of deterrence and one theater affects the stability of deterrence in another theater. Yes, there was discussion about how we rebuild our navy, representative Whitman, had the first question from the audience and talked about our inability after those first 7 days because we only did one move. We did 7 days. We didn't finish the war. All right, well now we got to move a bunch of stuff. Men and material from the continental United States into the end of Pacific. How are we going to do that? We don't have the ability to do that. As for the 60 minutes piece, I was honored to participate with former representative Elaine, Lori, and I really think that 60 minutes did a great job highlighting an issue that sometimes doesn't get highlighted outside our sea power circles. One thing I've disagreed with admiral gilday on is that he'll point to the shipbuilders to the shipbuilding industrial base and say, well, you guys got workforce constraints. You got supply chain constraints. You're limited in terms of what you can do. Well, those companies will say to him, we don't have a demand signal coming from the navy such that we could start to make multiyear investments in our workforce in our supply chain because for every ship we make every tiny missile we make, there's some subcomponent that's produced by a mom and pop shop in somebody's district. And because there's no commercial market for these things, if that navy budget seesaws, if it's not consistent, it goes down..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"And the enemy is watching. That's how Jerry Hendricks, you advocate for a ships act to accompany the chipset. Congressman Gallagher echoed that call for a ship's act. What would be in it? Because a lot of Republicans are skeptical of spending money right now, given our $31 trillion debt, what would be in a ship sat? Well, I think we'd have to make a major investment in the industrial base. And we have to make a wise investment. We have to go back almost to the Eisenhower dispersal policy type of investment where we began to make decisions about where we need to have additional capacity. So that we can be safe in a time of war. You want to think about where you're going to be vulnerable in that time of war. So I raised in the essay that during World War II, we built a lot of ships on the Mississippi River on the Ohio River. We even built submarines on Lake Michigan and then floated them out through the Chicago river to the Mississippi and down. We need to think about building where the workers are. That's one of the major challenges that we have today is where is your blue collar workforce located? And then you sort of have to try to figure out a plan to go to them. We are building on the east coast. We have some construction capacity in San Diego. We have a yard up in Bremerton, Washington that's been sidelined because of EPA regulations, so there's four dry docks up there that we can't even access right now. We need to kind of go and build where we can right now. And that's why I think we have the ships act where we have an industrial policy to make targeted investments in smaller yards in order to increase their capacity to get us ready for war. Jerry assumed for a moment that hypersonics is all the threat that it is plus more. And the Chinese People's Liberation Army navy wanted to make a Pearl Harbor like strike that was non nuclear. They could hit our carriers, but how many different shipyards would they have to hit with hypersonics to put us basically paralyzed our ability to stay at sea? Well, you heard the CNO say during the 60 minutes interview that essentially we're dependent upon 7 shipyards. I know where they're at and so do the Chinese. And so the idea that they would be able to target them. Now, the most difficult shipyards to reach are the ones that are farthest from Chinese access. So obviously you think about Guam, you think about Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, a traditional area of where we've been attacked before. Those are very vulnerable. Then you come down to San Diego. Those are a little less vulnerable. Then you think about the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic, those are less vulnerable because the Chinese have to work harder to get there. The Russians, by the way, we just operated a nuclear submarine in the Atlantic off the east coast, not too long ago, so they have that ability to reach there. I like the idea of, you know, where we're building the frigate, which is up in marinette, Wisconsin. In congressman Gallagher's district, that's a place and also looking at the, again, the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers where we could build that's deep inland. And that's sort of the types of investment that we made during the Cold War when we wanted to build missiles away from the coast. That's why we built the Titan missile in Colorado, Denver, Colorado, for instance, was to get away from that vulnerability to coastal attack..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"people liberation army navy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Admiral gilday talking about the shipyard shortage on 60 minutes. Welcome back in America, as I said the most important thing. Not just to the Hugh Hewitt show audience, but to the world is that the communist Chinese party had Xi Jinping. The strong man, the totalitarian ruler of all of China, head of the Chinese Communist Party has been in Moscow for two days, meeting whether he calls his junior partner Putin, it reminds you of Hitler and Mussolini, if you know your history in 39 getting together, that's why I asked doctor Hendricks to come on today, Jerry Hendricks will be on an hour three to discuss his brand new essay in the Atlantic, which is really caught the attention of Washington D.C.. Because the Atlantic is the last magazine that many people read in America in hardcover copy form. And the title of the article is the age of American naval dominance is over. The subheading is the United States has seated the oceans to its enemies. We can no longer take freedom of the seas for granted. And this is sort of something I talk about a lot for the last, I don't know, ten years. When Donald Trump was running and promising a 355 ship navy, that didn't come about the biggest failure of the Trump years was the failure to get the shipyards expanded up and running, getting a navy plan. And the key facts that I'll be talking about with doctor hendrickson an hour three is that the United States had 6700 chips at sea at the end of World War II. By the end of Eisenhower administration, we were down to a thousand, which is consistent with the Cold War, and then it fell and fell and fell until regular arrived and rebuilt the navy to 590 ships that had the deterrent effect on the Soviet Union. It fell apart. And then in our wisdom, we thought the end of history had arrived and we are now at 271 ships afloat. And doctor Hendricks says, the complications of that, the implications of that are so profound that people don't even see the obvious in front of them. So I'm going to read you a few graphs as preparation I've tweeted out the link. If you follow me at Hugh Hewitt dot com, you can go find the link to the Atlantic article by doctor Hendrick. It begins. Very few Americans. But for that matter, very few people on the planet can remember a time when freedom of the seas was in question. But for most of human history there was no such guarantee. Pirates, predatory states, the fleets of great powers did as they please. The current reality which states only the end of World War II makes possible the commercial shipping that handles more than 80% of all global trade by volume. Oil and natural gas rain and raw oars manufactured goods of every kind. Because freedom of the seas in our lifetime has seemed like a default condition, it is easy to think of it if we think of it at all as akins to Earth's rotation or the force of gravity. It's just the way things are. Rather than as a man-made construct that needs to be maintained and enforced. But what if safe transit ships could no longer be assumed? What if the oceans were no longer free? Doctor Hendricks was on points out. We got little glimpses of what happens when the Scripps of the sea are even transitory. The Suez Canal blockage, the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles, mess up, and then he goes on to say, what happens? If either of our enemies move, all right, what happens if we lose freedom of the sea? The events were temporary, that Suez Canal and the Long Beach meltdown. If expensive, imagine though, doctor Hendricks Wright, a more permanent breakdown, a humiliated Russia could declare a large portion of the Arctic Ocean to be its own territorial waters. Twisting the UN convention on the law of the sea to support its claim. Russia would then allow its allies access to this route while denying it to those who dare oppose Putin's wishes. Neither the U.S. Navy, which has not built an Arctic rated surface warship since the 1950s, nor any other nation in NATO currently is equipped to resist such a gamut. Or maybe the new adversarial alliance between Russia and Taiwan may be the first move would be Xi Jinping, showing up his domestic standing by attempting to see Taiwan and using China's anti ship ballistic missiles and other weapons to keep western navy at bay, and embolden China might seek to cement its claim over large portions of the East China Sea and the entirety of the South China Sea as territorial waters. Once one nation and this is the key thing, if one nation acts in this matter, others would follow, claiming enlarged territorial waters of their own extracting what they could from the commerce that flows through them. The great container ships and tinkers of today would disappear, replaced by smaller, faster cargo vessels capable of moving rare and valuable goods past pirates and corrupt officials. The cruise ship business which drives many tourist economies would falter in the face of hijacking. A single such incident would create a cascade of failure throughout the entire industry. Once busy sea lions would lose their traffic. If oceanic trade declines markets would turn inward, perhaps sending a selling a sell off to rival The Great Depression. Nations would be reduced to living on their own natural resources or those that could buy or take from their immediate neighbors. The world's oceans, for 70 years, assumed to be a global commons, when become a no man's land. This is the state of affairs that without a moment but we have in invited. Everywhere I look, Hendricks concerns. I observe see power manifesting itself. Unacknowledged in American life and in a very elegant section on out. If you shop at Walmart, you're actually shopping at container ships that have brought their goods from around the world. The war World War II. Let me be careful to be destroy your left destitute all of the world powers. In opposed to a to the concept of Amari Libra, a free C in this free seed concept, which we take for granted, has never been taken for granted, but we enforced it after World War II. We and our allies. And Russia and no ability to challenge it. But as I said, we went from 6700 ships in 6700 ships in the year immediately at the end of World War II, dropped to a thousand by the end of 590 was rebuilt by Reagan after Jimmy Carter disasters shipbuilding pause, and now we're down to 271. And China is building building. China writes Hendrix, which for a time enjoyed double digit GDP growth, expanded both its commercial and its naval ship capability, capacities. It tripled the size of the People's Liberation Army navy, the plea Ann, and invested in long-range sensors and missiles that could allow it to interdict commercial military ships more than 1000 miles from its shore. And then there's a little bit of history of how we came to embrace the power, and he said, the American industrial base was the real culprit here. There's so much thing here. And I follow this, we had, at the end of World War II, 50 graving docks, right? Heavy industrial locations where ships are assembled. They were greater than 150 meters in length. So you need to have graving docks. 150 of them in 1946. We have 23 today, and only a dozen of them are certified to work on navy ships. We need a ship's act to compliment the chips act because the navy right now concludes Hendrick in not a wartime force. The new navy must not look like the old navy. We need to invest in submarines that can not be found. We have to invest in ships that can survive and submersibles. We have to make sure so much gets done. And we need smaller shipyards along the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers along the Gulf Coast in the Great Lakes as they were in World War II and the Hendrix I say is a must read. Now with that background, I want you to listen again to the 16 minutes piece. Cut number 14 from Sunday Night and the second voice you hear is the chief of naval operations after the third voice you hear after the CSIS scholar is an.
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"Having lied to the Judiciary Department about her Judiciary Committee about her participation in a conference that Involved convicted cop killers being called political prisoners at the Senate Judiciary Committee on our hearing to lead the powerful civil rights division, and it is very, very powerful. She said that in 1999 Columbia University conference, Black America versus the prison industrial complex had simply involved her participation as a technocrat. No, not the cases. Chuck Ross discusses in the Washington Free beacon. Today. You can't lie to a confirmation committee a leak you shouldn't be able to. That should sink that nominee. Big story in The Wall Street Journal about Facebook. Facebook jail Specifically what lands you in Facebook jail. Now, look, I know Mark Circum Berg. I like Mark Zuckerberg. We carry on very occasional correspondents. But Facebook is in the censorship business. Now they're not the government so they don't have to comply with the First Amendment. But they established this big diversion. This big head fake called the review Committee, the high court Whatever you wanna call it, they have a government within a government. They're trying to be a state within a state. And it's fine. Mike McConnell's on it, but so are a bunch of international lawyers with standards and methods that are nothing at all consistent with American constitutional law, and they're going to come down with the big decision day about whether or not President Trump is going to be allowed back on Facebook. He doesn't carry opened up Donald trump dot com slash desk yesterday. That is going to quickly overtake everything else having to do with Donald Trump. But since it began taking cases in October, the oversight board it Facebook get this number. Has received more than 220,000 appeals from Facebook users, and it's issued a ruling that will tell you everything you need to know you do need to read and I will focus my third segment today on this most important op Ed by Ross Douthat who may very well be the best columnist in America. Except me. Of course in the Washington Post, Did Trump make everything progressive. In fact, I don't think he did. I think we're in the middle of a counter counter reformation that began with President Obama's revolution. Donald Trump's Reformation of that revolution that counter reformation in which we are watching Biden unfold and the counter counter Reformation, which is gathering steam, as best demonstrated in this book, The Tyranny of Big Tech Senator Josh Holly will be my guest tomorrow that will also appear on the interview podcast. News from abroad that begins at home. Tony Blinken, secretary of state reject the claim of Cold War with China. The China's are inside the Washington inside the White House, a fellow by the name of Kurt Campbell. Declared to the Financial Times Conference yesterday that there were significant downsides to moving away from the policy of strategic ambiguity. It is time to tell the Chinese Communist Party and the People Liberation Army Navy that if they attack Taiwan, the United States will defend Taiwan. We resisted doing that right up until halfway through the Trump administration, then both to me and to others, Mike Pompeo and others began to clearly signal armed conflict would follow armed conflict. That force would be met with force. This backing away simply a signal the Chinese they can do what they want with Taiwan Big mistake by the by administration. I think it could be a fatal mistake for Taiwan and thus For the Pacific. Mexico City Railway Bridge collapsed, killing at least 24 people. The New York Times story on this horrific the capital's been bracing for disaster for years, it writes ever since it opened only a decade ago. Mexico City's newest subway line held it. Expansion of the second largest subway system in the Americas has been plagued with structural weaknesses that lead engineers to warn the potential accidents. Now I wouldn't myself travel on the subway with such warnings, but Mexicans had no choice. It was even a brief partial shutdown of this line In 2014. Yesterday, a subway train on the Golden Line plunged 50 ft. Think about those poor people. 50 ft of terror. After an overpass collapsed underneath it..
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"America. I'm here here and thank you for listening. I'm joined now by the United States. Secretary of State. Michael Pompeo. Mr. Secretary, Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. It's great to be with you this morning. Thank you. The Chinese Communist Party has a mouthpiece, The Global Times, which has a lead editorial today. China to respond to US provocations and next 10 days Which concluded, and I want to quote Mr Secretary. We would rather face a Taiwan Straits crisis even a storm in the next 10 days. If Palm Pale and his likes become more aggressive and provocative before leaving office, the crisis will teach Taiwan secession is the lesson and nail Pompeo and his likes to the pillar of shame. Even if this will cause a shock to China US relations during the period of power change in the U. S. It will bring more benefits to the normal development of bilateral relations in the long term. End of quote, Mr Secretary. Are we on the cusp of a crisis with China? Thank you. This is this is the kind of language that the Chinese Communist Party has been using for an awfully long time. Now everything that President Trump administration has done with respect to The Taiwan issue in particular, deeply consistent with a series of agreements over an awfully long time. All we have asked that the Chinese Communist Party continue to adhere to the one China policy in the three communications as well. I were conversations with the Chinese Communist Party about it. But off they're reacting to a decision about a series of events, which include So much is just simply allowing the continuation of unofficial visits between Americans and And Taiwanese with a set of rules that we apply to every other nation. This has been President Trump's policy with respect to channel more broadly, we asked for his fairness, reciprocity even handed way of dealing with each other. It's appropriate that the Trump Administration continued to demand that have you discussed with President Trump how the U. S. Will respond to any provocation by General Secretary JIA next 10 days if one occurs But you never disclose conversations with President Trump. But this has been a conversation didn't come in on four years you about how the United States will respond. To every action right? The president began attacking the challenge of the economic in disparity between the way the two nations interacting with then worked hard with respect to the Wuhan virus. You demand transparency, fairness, reciprocity, the central tenets of relationship. The United States and China. Don't expect that will change. U. S Ambassador to the United Nations. Kelly Craft is going to arrive in Taiwan tomorrow. What sort of provocation do you think General Secretary she is capable of ordering. I told you. I never speculate in that way. Okay, well, what Anything that happens in your view happened as a result of a direct order from General secretary. She You nearly everything, certainly anything of significance that takes place certainly in the sphere of security and military activity. Certainly extends to the military civil fusion program as well. Those actions are highly centralized, highly controlled and emanate from the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, general Fishing Channel secretary fishing thing. So a very respected naval list is a friend of mine. Captain Jerry Hendrix Retired, has written that he expects a quote shouldering incident soon. Where a people's Liberation Army Navy ship shoulders the United States Navy ship Have you discussed with the president, the vice President, Defense Secretary Miller? Ambassador O'Brien Ordinary Radcliffe how we would respond to such an incident. I know you don't speculate. But as that have been war gamed. He wear military folks prepare for every potential challenge that they face. They had these kind of events before. With respect to Iran and others. I'm confident that the department sense knows how to respond in the event that they're challenged. Had a very important speech at the Nixon library this summer and that self serving because I was sitting next to you. You stated that quote we marginalized our friends in Taiwan, which later blossomed into a vigorous democracy. Close quote, Ambassador Craft will be the third senior official of the team Trump to visit Should these visits continue? In the Biden administration. We should continue to have interactions with Taiwan and the way that is permitted under the one China policy, one of Thanks, I said over the weekend, Woz. What we've done before is that the Chinese exercise of rhetorical flourish or they challenge us and we walk away from the things that we promised that we would do. Indeed, we have legislative requirements. Statutory recovers things that in law The United States simply hasn't done out of Sona spent its speed to China. We are not do that, Um, these actions aren't provocative. There are unintended. In that way. They're intended to fulfill the commitments that we have made. To all the parties in the region to the Chinese Communist Party, in particular part of the one China policy. We will live up to our promises. We will live up to our commitments we will do so in a way. It is appropriate and we all we ask is that the Chinese Communist Party fulfill the promises that it has made to not only united States but to the world For all these years, if you're invited to Taiwan post transition, will you accept? You spent the last six months refusing to talk about what I'm going to do after? I don't intend to change that before. All right, let me ask you about President Biden. Do you expect him to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party or sit down because after he's financed by Hollywood and big tech, and they're compromised by the Chinese Communist Party I think the world and that includes the American people will continue to demand that the United States secure Uh, freedom before them on that includes pushing back against the challenge of our time. That is the challenge of the Chinese Communist Party in its capacity and intention. To expand its influence and ultimately deliver. Ah, world that is very different one not governed by the rule of law by respect for sovereignty, of all the things that the world has come to know. The post World War. Two environment. The Chinese Communist Party wants to upend with a very different theory of international relations, one dominated by the East one controlled in a way that won't create more security freedom, more prosperity..
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"And uniformed military alike. It is comprehensive is Com completely comprehensible as well. Comprehensive incomprehension comprehensible are the key words. Jerry Hendricks joins me. Good morning, Captain. Great to speak with you. Good morning to you. And thanks for having me on this is part two of our conversation. And so people go listen to part one. I want to get to the part where we need to rebuild the Navy for very specific reason. Paid 60 you point out in the last dozen years. China signaled and then followed through on a conference of plan to establish a blue water, navy and you sight none other than the great Andrew Marshall flagging that decision to the 2008 deployment of the People's Liberation Army Navy to the Gulf of Aden. Why did that matter to the genius? That was Andrew Marshall? Well, I mean, we noted that China had largely been staying at home, exercising its fleet in the first island chain and really on Lee. Having what we call a shallow water navy, the fleet was only large enough in terms of the size of the ships. To go out operate for 2 to 3 days and then they had to come into port to re fuel and resupply and and get food in 2008. The Chinese navy began to push out to join task Force 155, which is a Which is a multi national task force to combat piracy. But what that opportunity gave them was the ability to begin operating for long duration, etc. They began to actually send two captains out for ships so they could double the amount of training and experience. They began to do things like underway, refueling and underway, replenishment and see which are Aspects and characteristics of a blue water Navy so that international action counter piracy actually gave China that the ability to grow in the Navy and also gave them the chance to gain experience. And improve their ship design, which they've done consistently since 2008. And by the way, they continued to maintain a presence in that task force, gaining experience and beginning to interact with other navies around the world, learning from them and they've really demonstrably improved as a blue water. Navy sense them. One of the great virtues of to provide and maintain a navy Captain Hendrix is new book and I will repeat the title seven times to provide and maintain a navy to provide and maintain a navy. I'm going to do it over and over again, so you go out and get to provide and maintain a navy. Is that it discusses the key, which is preventing war is as important as winning war. And in this era, preventing a war Captain Hendrix depends upon the American fleet being of adequate size and deployed. Yeah, it's important. Understand that the last 70 years of peace that seeing is really a historical aberration on by, you know, show in the book, essentially the number of battles and major wars that occur, etc. Through the 17th 18th 19th and through the early 20th century, But then comes 1945 in the end of World War two and then boom. We've essentially had 70 years of peace, etc. And it's become so peaceful that it's assumed. Everyone just thinks that we're going to get up in the morning. The seas will be peaceful, will be able to move merchandise and trade across the oceans unencumbered. No one's going to come. And steal your stuff off in ships, and this is allowed everyone to make these massive investments in ships and container ships and oil tankers that are increasingly large in size and also include increasingly vulnerable. One of the things I point out the book and I tied this together. This 70 years has been a period of unparalleled economic expansion. We've seen the growth of the world economy. We've seen the increase in individual life expectancies across the world. We've seen the rise of literacy across the world, and it's all tied to this period of economic expansion. Which is directly tied to this period of a peaceful sea. But that's kind of coming to an end. And we began to see this tipping point is piracy has begun to come, and we begun to seek contest Mint of the concept of the free See As both China and Russia have sought to establish territorial claims over larger portions of the waters near the coast. And this is largely come on. Why? Because the U. S. Navy has shrank. That's 70. Years of peace was because the U. S Navy was so large and was so capable that no one was going to challenge us at sea. But when we allow the fleet toe fall to ah, size of 271 ships In 2015. This created a power vacuum and essentially invited power, such as China and Russia to go ahead and challenge the United States and the west at sea. And that's to our detriment now to the civilian out there. If you want to know the difference between the aircraft carrier the cruiser in the destroyed this is the book for you. If you want to know the difference between an attack submarine in a boomer to provide maintaining maybe is free. If you want to know which way Navy forces we're going to provide, Maintain a navy is for you. But I got to say it made me sad Captain Hendrix because the greatest missed opportunity the last four years was to organize and rally support for an expansion of the American fleet. Now that is beginning it was your book It existed for years ago, and I hope Democrats I really up. Democrats read this because it ought to be something. Which Democrats and Republicans can't agree that I think you say you cannot search trust, and there is no such thing is virtual presence. We've got to have this Navy Yeah, it's true. You know Numbers, you know is is that most average It's my mentor often tells us you know, uh, you know there Quantity has a quality all of its own. And we know that there was sort of this threshold when the Navy slipped below 300 ships and actually, when it's sort of crashed through 3 50 on its way down. That's when the Chinese and the Russians began to lean forward. They got hungry, they they anticipated the fact that the Americans were no longer going to be able to maintain the rule sets it. See. If you want. I'm actually is disappointed. I am that we didn't make greater gains over the last four years when the Trump administration. Obviously the president himself called for 350 ships. In 2016 when he was running. I was disappointed. We didn't get more done over the last four years, but I'm hopeful right now, with the current makeup of the Congress, I do believe this is a bipartisan issue. You look at people like representative Cheryl of New Jersey who is a Naval Academy graduate helicopter pilot with 10 years of experience, or representative Gloria of Virginia, who was a Navy commander of 20 years experience a surface nuclear power. Qualified officer and then you look at others like represented Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran, or or lieutenant general Jack Bergman, who was a congressman now from Michigan's first district. Who was a helicopter and fixed wing pilot. We have supporters of the Navy, both on the Republican side obviously represented Whitman, the ranking member. People like represented banks and Gallagher, Our friends Even over in the Senate, you know, Senator Amazing. Hirono of Hawaii has a deep interest in the Navy, Senator Kaine of Virginia, King of Maine, as well as people like center for Do Cotton and Wicker. I think there's a chance to have a bipartisan consolidation around the importance the Navy and growing it going forward..
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"Provide and maintain a Navy is a must read for civilians and uniformed military alike. It is comprehensive is Com completely comprehensible as well. Comprehensive incomprehension comprehensible are the key words. Jerry Hendricks joins me. Good morning, Captain. Great to speak with you. Good morning to you. And thanks for having me on this is part two of our conversation. And so people go listen to part one. I want to get to the part where we need to rebuild the Navy for very specific reason. Paid 60 you point out in the last dozen years. China signaled and then followed through on a conference of plan to establish a blue water, navy and you sight none other than the great Andrew Marshall flagging that decision. To the 2008 deployment of the People's Liberation Army Navy to the Gulf of Aden. Why did that matter to the genius? That was Andrew Marshall? Well, I mean, we noted that China had largely been staying at home, exercising its fleet in the first island chain and really on Lee. Having what we call a shallow water navy, the fleet was only large enough in terms of the size of the ships. To go out operate for 2 to 3 days and then they had to come into port to re fuel and resupply and and get food in 2008. The Chinese navy began to push out to join task Force 155, which is a Which is a multi national task force to combat piracy. But what that opportunity gave them was the ability to begin operating for long duration, etc. They began to actually send two captains out for ships so they could double the amount of training and experience. They began to do things like underway, refueling and underway, replenishment and see which are Aspects and characteristics of a blue water Navy so that international action counter piracy actually gave China that the ability to grow in the Navy and also gave them the chance to gain experience. And improve their ship design, which they've done consistently since 2008. And by the way, they continued to maintain a presence in that task force, gaining experience and beginning to interact with other navies around the world, learning from them and they've really demonstrably improved as a blue water. Navy sense them. One of the great virtues of to provide and maintain a navy Captain Hendrix is new book and I will repeat the title seven times to provide and maintain a navy to provide and maintain a navy. I'm going to do it over and over again. So you go out and get to provide and maintain a navy is that it discusses the key, which is preventing war is as important as winning war. And in this era, preventing a war Captain Hendrix depends upon the American fleet being of adequate size and deployed. Yeah, it's important. Understand that the last 70 years of peace, it seems, is really a historical aberration on by, you know, show in the book, essentially the number of battles and major wars that occur, etc. Through the 17th 18th 19th and through the early 20th century, But then comes 1945 in the end of World War two and then boom. We've essentially had 70 years of peace, etc. And it's become so peaceful that it's assumed. Everyone just thinks that we're going to get up in the morning. The seas will be peaceful, will be able to move merchandise and trade across the oceans unencumbered. No one's going to come. And steal your stuff off in ships, and this is allowed everyone to make these massive investments in ships and container ships and oil tankers that are increasingly large in size and also include increasingly vulnerable. One of the things I point out the book and I tied this together. This 70 years has been a period of unparalleled economic expansion. We've seen the growth of the world economy. We've seen the increase in individual life expectancies across the world. We've seen the rise of literacy across the world, and it's all tied to this period of economic expansion. Which is directly tied to this period of a peaceful sea. But that's kind of coming to an end. And we began to see this tipping point as piracy has begun to come, and we begun to seek contest Mint of the concept of the free See As both China and Russia have sought to establish territorial claims over larger portions of the waters near the coast. And this is largely come on. Why? Because the U. S. Navy has shrank. That's 70. Years of peace was because the U. S Navy was so large and was so capable that no one was going to challenge its etc. But when we allow the fleet toe fall to ah, size of 271 ships In in 2015. This created a power vacuum and essentially invited power, such as China and Russia to go ahead and challenge the United States and the west at sea. And that's to our detriment now to the civilian out there. If you want to know the difference between the aircraft carrier the cruiser in the destroyed this is the book for you. If you want to know the difference between an attack submarine in a boomer to provide maintain a navy is free. If you want to know which way Navy forces are going to provide, maintain a navy is for you. But I got to say it made me sad Cat man drinks because the greatest missed opportunity the last four years was to organize and rally support for an expansion of the American fleet. Now that is beginning I was your book and existed four years ago, and I hope Democrats I really up. Democrats read this because it ought to be something. Which Democrats and Republicans can't agree that I think you say you cannot search trust, and there is no such thing is virtual presence..