About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of China's Coast Guard patrols east of Taiwan and various aspects of US-Asia defense strategies with guest Randy Schriver.

Beijing just announced a persistent Coast Guard patrol east of Taiwan, the administration is calling arms sales a "bargaining chip," and the NDS doesn't mention Taiwan at all. Is deterrence in the Strait quietly coming apart? Randy Schriver is Chairman of the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security (the successor to Project 2049), current chair of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the first Trump administration. We discuss… China's new persistent Coast Guard patrol east of Taiwan, and how lawfare, fishermen rescues, and radio queries make sovereignty claims physically manifest, Why treating arms sales as a "bargaining chip" puts the US out of compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act, Whether Seoul and Tokyo go nuclear as hedging accelerates — and what the axis of autocracy means for a Korea contingency, How many Chinese mothers will sacrifice their only legal child for a Xi Jinping vanity project — and why America stopped doing information warfare, Blockade vs. invasion, Hellscape, and why the US should exercise a Keelung–Yonaguni corridor with Japan, The own-goal management of…

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Schneider

Guest: Randy Schriver

Topics covered

• Asian defense
• US-China relations
• Taiwan Strait
• deterrence
• nuclear hedging
• Indo-Pacific security
• arms sales

Keywords

• China
• Taiwan
• defense
• arms sales
• nuclear
• Indo-Pacific
• deterrence
• Randy Schriver

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute for Indo-Pacific Security, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Project 2049

Places: Taiwan, US, Korea, Keelung, Yonaguni

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