Transcript
Jack Armstrong (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. At a conference in Singapore, Hegseth said China was, quote, credibly preparing for an invasion of Taiwan with Chinese forces staging regular drills around the island and the use of force has not been ruled out.
Joe Getty (0:41)
It's amazing to me what stories get attention and what stories just don't grab people's attention. But yeah, Hegseth gave a speech over the weekend to our Asian partners and the Wall Street Journal version of it certainly grabbed my attention. A little quote from Hegseth. To be clear, any attempt by Communist China to conquer Taiwan by force would result in devastating consequences for the Indo Pacific and the world. We are not going to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real and it could be imminent. And saying that we will allow it, it will not happen on Trump's watch. We have repositioned some sort of anti ship killing missiles close by, to which China said, that's really, really awful. You shouldn't be doing that. But I mean, this is some serious bluster between the two most powerful countries in the world that at some point are gonna go to war.
Jack Armstrong (1:32)
I was just reading those, reading about those anti ship munitions that are so interesting. They're mounted on remote controlled trucks. They need no humans. So somebody in a bunker far away drives these trucks around, they fire off missiles, then quickly relocate so they can't be, you know, hit by return fire. It's really quite interesting. We're positioning them in the Philippines and similar areas. Yeah, the, the sabers are a rattling. No doubt.
Joe Getty (2:01)
As the Wall Street Journal writes, in recent years, China has built up the world's biggest navy, a title once held by the United States. You know who held it before the United States? Great Britain. Great Britain ruled the seas for a very long time, then it's been us. Is it going to be China in the next century? Well, that's what China is hoping, yeah.
Jack Armstrong (2:21)
I'm not sure you'd like their placing of the seas. Anyway, I found this. I mean, I've been on this jihad for a long time, but more and more open coverage of the fact that we, the United States and the Western world in general, fell for an absolutely brilliant plan by the Chinese back in the late 60s, early 70s. They needed help, primarily financially in trade from the Western world and came up with an absolutely brilliant plan. Let's pretend that we want to westernize and move away from Communism at our own pace and liberalize in return for our investment from the West. And this was absolutely deliberate plan. They knew all along that it was not sincere. Although there have been some reformers in the, you know, the last several decades in China who are actually like, you know, maybe that's not such a bad idea. But then a Xi Jinping always comes along and so they duped us into opening up the relationship with China, which was bad enough, but a great deal of left America still hasn't caught on to it. And they are so motivated by the need to show openness to other cultures, their xenophiles, as I often put it, they still haven't caught on the China is a dire threat to the United States in our way of life. For instance, on universities told the story many times. Counterintelligence people came onto a university campus, said, you've got a bunch of Chinese spies on the compass. Campus university president said, get off my campus, you racists. And that attitude persists. Headline Harvard has trained so many Chinese Communist officials, they call it their party school. Not like party school. Let's get wasted and get laid. No Communist Party's school.