China's Growing Military Reach and Global Alignment Risks

Added: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]uh they have uh built a lot of nuclear power plants. They've built a lot of coal fired plants. They have stockpiled a lot of energy. They're ready if if they have to to fight us. They have built an enormous fleet. Uh I don't think it's as good as ours by any stretch of the imagination, but there's a lot of it. And they have the capability to do what Iran has been doing to us. And I would say that capability would be on steroids. That's the ability to reach out and essentially destroy an entire surface fleet from a distance. Not just the surface fleet, but any islands where we put anything.

[00:00:37]So, I think we're courting disaster at this stage. And then the real question is if if China becomes involved, what will the Russians do? I suspect that they'll take the gloves off. They'll finish off things in Ukraine and they'll turn with the Chinese against us. And I don't think they'll be the only ones. I don't think the Indians are going to sit there and do nothing because India faces