d. c. brad, it's good to have you back on the program. so we've seen what 3 days of military muscle flexing by the chinese, around taiwan. some at the pentagon have said that this is an example of china over reacting to the situation as it is right now. how would you describe thanks up to you, john? yeah, i would describe this as a, a very significant, aggressive destabilizing and irresponsible exercise. i say that when you look at the quantity of ships and aircraft and bald their activities and their locations, you know this, this is a significant deal. and what is beijing up to here? i would say they're obviously rehearsing an air and naval blockade. one of the forms of aggression that many of us have thought we could see they're clearly trying to implement a. busy long term campaign of provocation, i would say to where down ty, one's forces. i think they're eager to see how the u. s. and taiwan and japan for that matter, respond. and i think they're also trying to isolate taiwan by raising the cost of a gauging politically with taiwan.

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