Brad Johnson discusses China’s determination to seize independent Taiwan. Both the U.S. and the Japanese Naval forces are patrolling the Taiwan Strait reminding China it cannot claim ownership. This is clearly an aggressive move to demand Taiwan as China’s own.
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brad johnson here for americans for
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intelligence reform it is february 25th
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2021.
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uh interesting little piece of news in
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the navy uh
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sphere if you will the the as if
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something i’ve mentioned a great deal is
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china has been building up a very
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serious navy
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launched i believe it is three aircraft
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carriers right they didn’t have any
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only a couple of short years ago and
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also a submarine force
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uh build up plus all the regular navy
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ships a lot of other navy ships being
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built and thrown into it they’re
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building a
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first-class world power navy where they
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did not have one before
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now part of one of their goals i think
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we all understand anyone who wants to
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recognize the truth for what it is
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there’s always been this thing between
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taiwan and mainland china they each kind
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of claim well there’s really only one
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china but
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they each sort of separately say well we
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represent it
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which has become just a joke for i mean
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taiwan’s clearly a separate country
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they have a booming economy a capitalist
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style economy a lot of politics back and
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forth
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but mainland china is communist all the
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way
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and uh if they can’t steal money from
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the rest of the world in the west and
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they don’t have any way to
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to to make money that’s the the system
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is so inefficient being communist
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now what’s interesting that has
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developed there are people starting to
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push back to the to the degree that they
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can
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we’ve seen the us and japanese defense
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force they call it but it’s the navy
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sail through together in a joint navy
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operation
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the taiwan straits so the taiwan straits
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are between taiwan and china
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china views that as their own
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territorial waters
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so they uh
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and i think they do genuinely view it
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that way because they 100 percent
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believe taiwan belongs to them and they
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are 100 percent going
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gonna go in and get it and i would not
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be a surprise to see them
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take action on this during the biden
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administration because president biden
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is
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so weak on china and
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the their their take and what they’ve
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been complaining about
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is saying that the united states is
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undermining
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regional peace by invading
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chinese territorial waters so this this
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lays the groundwork and we’ve got at the
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same time something i’ve mentioned
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before
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we’ve got the new director of the cia
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coming in ambassador william barnes
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who’s saying that we’re in
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competition with the chinese and joe
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biden has taken that to kind of cover up
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his weakness on china
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he’s trying to talk tough and so what is
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he saying he’s saying we’re in
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competition with china
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well when china is clearly intending
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to invade and throw and take over taiwan
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just as they’ve done with hong kong and
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they’re they’re already
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moving the lines out around what the
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the waters that they claim to control to
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include
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taiwan they’re planning on facing down
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these p that the u.s and japan navies
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are going through the taiwan straits and
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things like that because
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they’re going in and taking this out
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that’s not competition it
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is a a misdirection from the problem on
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the part of joe biden and his
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intelligence community
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and the director of the c the coming in
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director of the cia
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and what they’re doing is creating a
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situation
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that’s going to turn into violence it’s
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going to turn into war
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and that’s stupid and dangerous this
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sort of stuff needs to be turned around
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and hopefully we can get enough of this
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information out there for people to
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start to
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analyze and think about that some of the
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politicians who generally are worthless
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on this sort of thing because they don’t
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like to
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look down the road at what can be a
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problem and say gee we need to do
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something now to fix it
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because that doesn’t help them
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politically particularly so it’s it’s
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one of those things that doesn’t lend
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itself to our political system in the
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united states
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so it has to be brought to people’s
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attention hopefully we can start to get
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the word out there
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Brad Johnson retired as a Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations. Having served domestically and abroad, many assignments included areas of armed conflict. He served overseas in direct support of the War Against Terrorism and he took multiple assignments overseas as Chief of Station.
Brad is an enrolled member of The Cherokee Nation, a Federally Recognized Tribe.
In the summer of 2017, he founded the non-profit organization Americans for Intelligence Reform to create awareness of political corruption and the resulting diminished capabilities within the intelligence community. Serving as President, he brings you his unique perspective from deep, international experience and conservative, Christian values.
