World domination tactics of Chinese pushes India to action high in the Himalayas. Information is sketchy, but India has won recent skirmishes. As more fighting equipment is brought in, will this escalate into war? Brad Johnson, CIA Chief of Station (Ret.) and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform, tells you why to watch this carefully despite our distracting domestic issues.
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bad Johnson it is June 30 of 2020 and
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you know every day in my newsfeed which
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is supplied by all the great readers of
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Vlad Tepes blog there is more and more
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stuff coming in about the India China
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border conflict more people are getting
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killed as more artillery and more
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weaponry being moved to that front
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there’s lots of speculation as to you
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know why this is happening but it
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certainly looks like it’s intensifying
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what are you thinking about then yes it
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has gotten to the point where you have
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there’s a valley called the Galvan
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Valley is how it’s spelled I’m sure that
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I’m pronouncing it wrong based on what
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whatever is in I think it’s an Indian
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Territory that would name so maybe it’s
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the British pronunciation of that of
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that region at any rate this this valley
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is a Little River value that that that
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separates it’s a the China from India
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it’s a mountainous region now kind of in
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the middle of nowhere sort of thing and
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what the Chinese have done is they’ve
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always claimed this area is theirs it’s
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always been Indian Territory or for a
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very long time it’s been Indian
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Territory their last border war was in
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1962 and I haven’t really looked back to
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see you know what border changes took
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place at that time but at least in and
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certainly modern recent history that has
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been an area controlled by India so the
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Chinese just moved in and because it’s a
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mountainous kind of desolate region with
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not much there they were able to dig in
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foxholes build some buildings and all
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this stuff on what is in essence Indian
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territory so the Indians came into the
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area and apparently now some of this is
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surmise on my part but apparently we’re
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kind of friendly attacked by the Chinese
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who you know and I don’t know what which
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sort of forces were arrayed against the
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other I mean none of that sort of
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information is coming out but it ended
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up being that the Chinese took a
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shellacking got quite a few people
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killed out of that attack and the
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Indians far fewer
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now it could be a thing of not comparing
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fighter to fighter although I wouldn’t
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be surprised if the Indian fighters can
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hold their own against the Chinese could
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have been a big equipment advantage
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because the Indians now for a long time
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I’ve been moving some very serious
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equipment into their I mean helicopters
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and armored vehicles and troops and all
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those sorts of things they’re moving
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into the region the Indians are taking
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this very serious and they also clearly
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if you check the domestic reporting
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coming out of India they take this
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threat very seriously China and I think
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as most people are aware and as I
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alluded to earlier
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they’ve already been previous Wars the
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last one in 1962 over the border issues
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so as we all know history tends to
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repeat itself so I wouldn’t be surprised
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to see this really really be up as as
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the government watchdogs are out there
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taking a look around it at hot flash
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points where something really flare up
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quickly and easily this is gonna be one
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that’s moving high up on everybody’s
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list and this is something that you know
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definitely the United States doesn’t
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want to see and people talk about Russia
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doesn’t want to see it and other
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countries don’t want to see it which but
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probably is true I don’t think a war
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between India and China which I think
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believe are the two most populous
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countries in the world I don’t think a
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war between those two countries does a
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lot of good for much of anybody but now
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what we’re seeing is again this is
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something I’ve referred to often what
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we’re seeing is a very heavy worldwide
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aggression on the part of the Chinese
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and this is one of those areas it is
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certainly playing out in other areas of
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the of the world where the Chinese are
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trying to re-establish control or gain
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control of areas that for whatever
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reason they believe should be theirs and
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these areas along the border with India
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are 100% part of that overall effort on
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the part of the Chinese and they’re
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being extraordinarily aggressive which
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this is one of the things I also try to
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point out often the reason the Chinese
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feel so safe to be so aggressive on the
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world stage is because of the domestic
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politics we’re seeing going on in the
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United States right now and all the
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conflict here in the United States
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that’s taken place so it’s it’s it
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kind of one of those cake
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you know when the when the cat’s away
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the mice will play and since the United
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States who’s still the single great
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world power is not in the game and not
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watching this stuff beaten up by local
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politics local meaning US politics that
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that has given the Chinese a free hand
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there are other bad players in the world
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that are also equally acting up but the
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Chinese are the big aggressors on the
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world stage and this thing on the Indian
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border is one of those areas that there
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will be more shooting there’s going to
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be more conflict there where soldiers
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are going to be getting killed so far it
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hasn’t flared out into civilian areas
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but this is definitely going to be
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there’s going to be more shooting
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between the two militaries in that area
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and how big Disick it is the question
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the Indians are preparing for war
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they’re also reaching out and have
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established some treaties of different
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types with other countries and are
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trying to bolster their you know their
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their case with other countries against
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the Chinese aggression so that’s where
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we find ourselves right now and this is
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again one of those places I would put on
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my my watch list to make sure that you
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keep an eye on what’s going on in that
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area and hopefully you know won’t come
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to a serious well I know that apparently
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the Three Gorges Dam is right on the
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edge of bursting and China could find
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itself with internal catastrophes and
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you you know I wouldn’t be that
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surprised if a war a border war with
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India would be some way to focus the
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attention off the domestic populations
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complete lack of faith in the Chinese
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government’s divine right to rule
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yes and that certainly is it’s a
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communist tactic worldwide but a you
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know certainly the it’s a methodology
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that they use they always need some sort
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of external enemy to blame for the
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drought or whatever and I’m serious you
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know the old Soviet Union they would
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have droughts and they blame the CIA or
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blame the United States or whatever it
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was if there was too much premarital sex
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it was the fault of the CIA or or
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somebody so it’s it’s just it’s the
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perennial tactic of those of Communists
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and
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certainly that the Chinese would be
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happy to have that happen if the dam
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were to break which I understand
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correctly is as you do said is that that
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that it’s close to breaking and they’re
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not really bringing in the what they
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need to fix all of the problems there so
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if that were to burst enough thousands
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of Chinese were to get killed in a
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mudslide that took place over you know
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going down these different gorges and
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things war with India would be the
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perfect way to cover to cover up that
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problem and I think they could they
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would hope to keep any conflict of that
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sort within control so I mean that’s
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kind of my my hope on it but like I said
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the Chinese are saying oh not that big a
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deal this is just some tiny stuff that
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needs to be fixed but the Indians are
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taking this very seriously so you know
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if the Indians come and come in with
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everything to just give the Chinese
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shellacking and teach them a lesson to
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not go in there again which has been
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done to the Chinese a lot I mean
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recent years the Vietnamese have kicked
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their air in a few a time or two as well
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so if that’s what happened the Chinese
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would not be able to allow that on the
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world stage today which means then they
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would have to bring in a lot more forces
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and then it just kind of keeps piling up
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like that could get worse that’s that’s
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my worry out of this I guess it’s time
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to update that famous old Chinese curse
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may the Chinese create interesting times
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thank you very much
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you
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