1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: White House Press briefing scheduled to begin Meanwhile, China is 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: not happy with Japan. I know that most people are 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: paying attention to what's going on in Venezuela. And I'm 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: not saying that you shouldn't. You absolutely should. There's a 5 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: clear action going on here, and I am very surprised, 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: and I'll get into it that Congress has not demanded 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: more oversight, demanded a declaration of war something. Tony kats 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: Tony Kat today, good to be here, Good to be 9 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: with you. I take you to this story over here 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: about Japan where the new Prime Minister, Sunday Takaichi, has 11 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: decided to move missiles to an island near Taiwan. China 12 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: says this is deliberate to create regional tension and provoke 13 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: military confrontation. I'm not one hundred percent sure if that's 14 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: the case, but it's meant to get China's attention, and 15 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: that worked. Why is Japan interested in China's attention? We 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: should at least note the longstanding hundreds of not thousands. 17 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: I would leave that to others. I'll say hundreds of 18 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: years of hatred between China and Japan. Claiming no expertise 19 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: there is no love here. China was not always this China. 20 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: China had to deal with the subjugation of the Japanese Empire. 21 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: There is no love lost. Today's China, this communist he 22 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: escape is desirous of full on hegenomic power. They want 23 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: to be the dominant power throughout the Pacific room. And 24 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: the conversation of this really gets into the idea of 25 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: whether or not this idea of China is going to 26 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: take that hemisphere and we're going to keep our hemisphere. 27 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: And that's how we're going to have a little bit 28 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: of daytant That's how it's gonna happen. That's why you 29 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: see eleven warships right now in the Caribbean taking a 30 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: look at Venezuela going helloo. By the way, that's going 31 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: to become a meme if you see the video of that. 32 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,839 Speaker 1: I realize while I'm doing it, I may have made 33 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: a dreadful mistake. China wants Taiwan. China wants the Taiwan Straits. 34 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: It wants the South China Sea, it wants the Yellow Sea. 35 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: It wants control of not only the fishing, it wants 36 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: control of the cargo. It wants control of everything in 37 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: the area. Japan under Takeaichi seems to have no wants 38 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: for that to happen, and seems to be very, very 39 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 1: willing to fight China, stating that right wing forces in 40 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: Japan are leading Japan and the region toward disaster. Beijing 41 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: is determined and capable of safeguarding its national territorial defense. 42 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: Japan is making a statement that's what is ours is ours, 43 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: and we don't think anything should belong to you. We 44 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: simply have no interest in being some type of never 45 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: mind vassal state. We have no interest in being isolated 46 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: from our ability to trade and to work and to 47 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: be living a good and safe life. We're going to 48 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: protect this island, and we're going to do so through 49 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: what what Major Mike Lyons, military analysts who retired United 50 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: States Army who you hear on this show, referred to 51 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: as visible leverage. That's what he refers to Trump's doctrine 52 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: as visible leverage. And what we're going to do is 53 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: show you. Now we all understand that China has far 54 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: more people and more dollars and could do far more damage. 55 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: I want to share a longstanding theory that I've had 56 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: about China. I believe I think it's Gordon Chang who 57 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: believes this. Also, I believe that China is a paper tiger. 58 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: It is my strongest feeling that if China were ever 59 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: really punched in the nose, they would not know how 60 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: to respond. China talks big, China talks smack, China talks tough. 61 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: It's part of their charm. But China has never really 62 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: been confronted and has never gotten punched. No, No, I'd 63 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: rather none of it happen now. I'm not saying I'm 64 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: looking for it. I'm not saying I want it. I'm 65 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: not saying any of us need it. We'd be better 66 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: off if Xijin Bing wasn't there and they weren't a 67 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: communist nation. I am not saying that I want the 68 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: war or a fight or anything else. What I'm saying 69 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: is China's never taken a punch, and China reacts very 70 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: aggressively to simple moods and twice as aggressively to larger 71 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: scale moves. This will sometimes keep people from making the 72 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: move at all. Those people are wrong. This is an 73 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: unbelievable show of strength from Takeichi. Unbelievable show of strength Taipei, 74 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: of course, meaning Taiwan, saying that Japan has the right 75 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: to take the steps needed to protect the security of 76 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: its territory. Japan's strengthening of its relevant military facilities is 77 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: basically helpful to maintaining security in the Taiwan Straits, so 78 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: of course this is helpful to our national interest, as 79 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: Japan has no territorial designs or hostility towards Taiwan. Things 80 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: are gearing up. I'm very curious if we see a 81 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: move from Australia soon. The Aussees have a lot to lose. 82 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: Why do you think we as a nation are starting 83 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: to build submarines in Australian ports. Maybe China does get 84 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: that hemisphere, but that doesn't mean the other nations of 85 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: that hemisphere want China to have it. White House press briefing, 86 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: that's common. This is Tony Kats today.