that war, that we re not going to be disadvantaged but here s the key thing that they ve done. china wants to avoid conflict with the united states. so they they have developed wham calling gray zone operations that conduct operations below the level of conflict that will get them the same results that conflict would get. which is what geopolitical control, and influence. so south china sea east china sea, areas around japan and taiwan are all about intimidation, coercion, undermining civil society, undermining governments, taking it over media operations, and spend that they want as far south as australia. this is a major campaign. they have 130,000 commercial fishing boats that work for the pla it is people s liberation army all militarized with prop gps and also radio
cases, have special capabilities that the united states doesn t have. in the event we have to fight that war, were not going to be disadvantaged. but here s the key thing. china wants to avoid conflict with united states so they have developed what i am calling operations to conduct operations below the level of conflict that will get them the same results that conflict would get which is what geopolitical control and influence. south china sea, east china sea, areas around japan and taiwan are all about intimidation, collusion, undermining civil society, undermining government, taking over media operations that they want as far south as australia. this is a major campaign. they have a hundred 30,000 commercial fishing votes that work for the people s liberation army. all militarized with proper gps
relationship with israel and the arab states, particularly saudi arabia and the uae in jordan, have never been closer. i mean we are at the point where they share intelligence together. think about that. countries that were warning at one time and now are literally helping each other against a common enemy. mark: again, i don t see israel sitting taking just lebanon but they will stable hit to ron and the government center and military centers and hit them with everything we got. that is true. that is why i hope the administration can stitch together and arab nato because standing together collectively against the iran would impose a deterrent capability with the cost would be the destruction of
the director of the national security council, they re one and the same person. they bring the whole of government issued together in terms of what is the overall strategy and what are the elements of the implementation of that strategy. they bring that to the president, they put some options in front of them, associate the risk and let them make some decisions. so john bolton. hr mcmaster before that. now india is obviously a very big country with a lot of people. the military is certainly not up to the standards but apparently they are starting to put a lot of resources into the military because with all the country in the region, they are pushing, pushing and they re pushing india two. do you know what india is trying to do to respond to this? militarily they are increasing their capability. they are very concerned about
the director of the national security council, they re one and the same person. they bring the whole of government issued together in terms of what is the overall strategy and what are the elements of the implementation of that strategy. they bring that to the president, they put some options in front of them, associate the risk and let them make some decisions. so john bolton. hr mcmaster before that. now india is obviously a very big country with a lot of people. the military is certainly not up to the standards but apparently they are starting to put a lot of resources into the military because with all the country in the region, they are pushing, pushing and they re pushing india two. do you know what india is trying to do to respond to this? militarily they are increasing their capability. they are very concerned about