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Joining us today is Matt Pottinger. He’s a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a former US deputy national security advisor. He’s also the editor and coauthor of the new book The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan.
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[@ChinaUnscripted]

I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Boiling Moat for yourself! hooverpress.bookstore.ipgbook.com/the-boiling-moat-products-9780817926458.php

[@Trump2024asw]

Have you heard about the massive cyber attack on Florida's birth certificate system likely done by Chinese backed drug cartels? It's a interesting story which effects me in a VERY personal way Chris. God bless an Christ inspire.

[@Trump2024asw]

Have you heard about the massive cyber attack on Florida's birth certificate system likely committed by drug cartels back by communist Chinese? It's a problem which effects me very personally.

[@codrinvechiu2832]

what a guest congratz

[@Myrborg]

Fantastic episode (like always). I'm buying that book right now. Big smile and best regards from Norway!

[@Vaeldarg]

This guy talks about the CCP being too scared to sanction the Trump administration, yet is careful not to mention Putin spending months building up troops on Ukraine's border under it. He's treating it like Putin waved a magic wand and conjured those troops from nothing as soon as Biden was in office.

[@KennethStrothers]

I lived in the Philippines 🇵🇭 for years and when I first got there the attitude was distrustful of the USA 🇺🇸 and neutral to China 🇨🇳 now China 🇨🇳 is the national enemy and mostly very positive towards the USA 🇺🇸! My wife’s cousin was in a ship fishing that the Chinese almost cut in half!

[@tomsewell2462]

I lived in Dumaguete from '14-'19. Those shoals Winnie Pooh & the CCPinks ruined used to be legendary coral dive sites. Grrr!

[@gaufrid1956]

I'm Aussie living in Cagayan de Oro Mindanao Philippines. I've watched the way that Filipinos have become more aware of the danger that the CCP is. I've seen how the CCP have ramped up their bullying of the Philippines in the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone. However, the Philippines has stood up to the bullying.

[@GeoScorpion]

On finding the most absurd and funniest Chinese Communist Moments, I think Winston and Matt over at The China Show have a huge jump with a collection of videos ranging from painting hillsides green to stapling leaves onto trees to just wandering around ghost cities and filming it.

[@Myrborg]

Yeah, I have had many laughs (and sprayed coffee out of my nose) while watching their videos. Some things are just truly incomprehensible hilarious when it comes to the gems they find across the great fire wall.

[@Shadefinder1]

CLAM MAN!!

[@hemetsonshine]

I started watching THE CHINA SHOW in 2020. Winston and Matt are great at showing, via video clips, China behaving badly. It was hard to believe that stuff happens without seeing the many many video clips.

[@Myrborg]

@@hemetsonshine Do you know if they (Winston and Matt) have done a collaborative video with ChinaUnscripted team?

[@matthewyocom56]

Showing fear to your enemy is like bleeding while swimming w/ Great White's and thinking they won't eat you 😂

[@DK-ev9dg]

4 cowards and paper tiger America

[@diazromeo5506]

They are hollywood actors ..

[@JayantKashyap]

Thanks for hosting. Just listening to this interview gives me hope that we will overcome the evil that is the CCP.

[@rockys7726]

As the US navy/marines are painfully aware from experience in WWII invading islands are very difficult. Easy to defend, everyone can see you coming and difficult to land enough troops to hold beaches.

[@joshlewis575]

If i remember correctly the eastern coast is also mountainous. Can you imagine how many hidden bunkers loaded to the teeth are in said mountains? Sounds like a nightmare trying to land there.

[@rockys7726]

@@joshlewis575 absolutely! Also they would have to go around the island to get to the east coast being bombarded the entire time.

[@MarkH10]

Go to ODIN and see info on every single national military in the world. The CCP has about 4% chance of invading and staying.

[@margotbw4660]

Reading this book now, it is easy to read even though it covers a lot in depth, highly recommended!

[@GeoScorpion]

I'm a Boston Democrat, but I'm definitely a fan of Matt Pottinger and Mike Gallagher with regard to foreign policy. For those who missed the references: "The Causes of War" by Geoffrey Blainey "The Causes of Wars: And Other Essays", Second Edition by Michael Howard (also his book, "On War") "War in International Society: A Study in International Sociology" by Evan Luard "The Boiling Moat" by Matt Pottinger Got my Summer Reading List.

[@Jaysqualityparts]

Well it is the democrat party that has destroyed our boarder and our power projection on the world stage so. By all means vote because of your hatred you learned from watching state news media.

[@antiprismatic]

😂😂😂 you mean you're a communist sympathizer that want to have china invade Boston. Hahahahahaha you voting for Biden and more accidental wars?

[@DK-ev9dg]

USA destroyed the whole world with wars

[@wesleyhempoli5548]

Democrats and Republicans (the ones with brains, not the democratic, anti-american members of "the squad" and the republican isolationists) generally agree on foreign policy. It's their domestic policies that define and distinguish themselves.

[@jackjones9460]

Is sad no countries will copy China’s actions exactly as they are doing to other countries. Only India has physically resisted and Vietnam in the early ‘70s. Both were successful in stopping CCP aggression.

[@Stixenterprise]

Taiwan has two main non-kinetic advantages against China. 1. A PLA buildup along the coast would be easily identifiable. 2. Avoiding monsoon seasons, leaves May and October to cross the strait for the P.L.A. Navy and can stay on high alert during these windows of opportunity.

[@andrewhobbs7740]

True; however, as PLA drills get larger point #1 slowly gets weaker as the difference between an exercise and an actual attack becomes harder to distinguish.

[@effexon]

china seems to little bit push closer and closer... little islands could be that way all over taiwan. biggest is of course that probing of US response.

[@isaiahdavid835]

They just want to be feared. Its about time that the world acknowledge it. And the world nations should NOW call them in chinese as the great "Méiyǒu liángxīn Qiángdào" 😄😁😆😅🤣🤩🙃😄😁😆😅🤣😂

[@goosecouple]

China Uncensored: "China is collapsing !!" China Unscripted: "No !! China will invade us !!!"

[@internalwarrior2410]

Good point!

[@peterl545]

China needs to turn expansionist before their economic capabilities are fully degraded.

[@KennethStrothers]

I personally love ❤️ the assessment that if France 🇫🇷 and Britain 🇬🇧 had occupied the Rhineland in 1936 WWII probably would have been prevented! One thing historically is that appeasement has never worked!

[@drewstead316]

Both world wars unalived about two and a half percent of the population at that time for each one or another way to say that is about half a percent per year, today amounts to 40 million people a year... We can debate the economics corruption and fiscal policy all day but we have a food problem. But China really has a food problem.

[@MrBAchompBAchomp]

This type of content should be getting a lot more views. F the ccp

[@DK-ev9dg]

Go the fuck away. They are spreading hate about China.

[@secretbassrigs]

Matt P. is also a real patriot. His family background also proves a fair and objective perspective.

[@JustSomeWeirdo]

I can’t believe KZbin unsubscribed me again!!! This is like the third time for this channel of y’all’s alone!

[@Alex-sr7xu]

Love the emphasis on detterents and the knowledge there of.

[@chancepaladin]

this whole podcast has thoroughly blown my mind, this's so much to wrap my head around.

[@DK-ev9dg]

All bs anti China propaganda.

[@DavidBale-vn4op]

My Taiwan in-laws don't want that fight. They just want to raise their children . Lithuania recognizes Taiwan. Not being bought off like some nations

[@animejanai4657]

A significant portion of Taiwan's population doesn't mind reunification or wants to be unified. Add that to the great majority of Taiwanese that refuse to fight, and that means Taiwan is no where as tough as Ukraine to be conquered. Taiwan doesn't even have a military draft to get people to defend the country.

[@GolDFish-if1ov]

​@@animejanai4657 Taiwan doesn't want reunification because they hate Communist China

[@Billy_Almighty]

It is the US that set that date, it is not China. that is why US is provoking China to make a mistake, then blame China.. 🤣🤣🤣

[@SpaceOddity4214]

I got a 2:23h long commercial. It was a poker game... oO

[@ImperiumLibertas]

Wtf lmao. Do you know which game it was?

[@SpaceOddity4214]

@@ImperiumLibertas Idk. It looked like a tournament and one of the players was a woman. 🤷‍♂

[@MichaelJHinds]

1:13 add Bible history to Chris’s hobbies, right among gaming, B-movies, and plotting to become universal supreme leader for life.

[@adminotaku4799]

2 years is VERY optimistic in my opinion.

[@sohyankeat2031]

THANKS FOR AMAZE INFO😂

[@drewstead316]

1984 was published in 1948, communism has served its usefulness as an opposition to build up the other side and communism was always destined to fail

[@petersinclair3997]

1984 was about totalitarianism. Animal Farm about communism morphing into fascism. The lesson being don’t stray too far the Centre, left or right.

[@danielray6060]

Holy crap you got someone on that I don’t have to squint to understand what they’re saying kick ass, bro

[@urchinsub]

I think your guest expressed a misconception about party membership. The average person cannot join the CCP/CPC. You must be invited into it and refusing to accept is unwise. So the number of people currently holding membership is not a direct reflection of support for communism. I don’t think he’s wrong in general though, big city life and technology are products of capitalism and that is not lost on many Chinese citizens who benefit from it.

[@chancepaladin]

awww yeaaa

[@DaFratRat]

How did it take a multi year long China Uncensored fan not find this channel until now. You need to promote this channel more.❤🎉😊

[@andrewhobbs7740]

Loved the comment about doubling down on global warming. There are only two main problems. First, as water evaporates, the atmosphere will become denser, causing the boiling point of water to rise. The oceans won't entirely disappear until temperatures reach 374 C or 705 F, at which point the greenhouse effect of water vapor will cause a runaway melting the land surface. Second, the latent heat of evaporation will require over 500 years of Earth's entire incident sunlight. Aside from these caveats, my calculations indicate that this would definitely prevent a PLA invasion of Taiwan.

[@chancepaladin]

He raises an interesting point which is you really can't PMC a war with china ... there aren't private contractors with responses to the dual massive fleet they have, for example.

[@Rodsupremos]

"...way away from it." 41:43 So cute 😊

[@user-tm1dk3ph1q]

Well, I'm commenting Ccp on my back I've been replying Ccp on my back There was a shadow ban Ccp on my back And the youtuber Well, his video won't be back been commenting Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Commentin' Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday What have I done? What have I done?

[@servicedog2325]

As long as nothing happens in the next four months we'll be ok.

[@mikeiso8963]

I think the easiest explanation for military investment is our dollar is disproportionately affected by global trade compared to any other currency. Demand for the US dollar doesn’t exist in a vacuum and because the majority of global trade is conducted with it and if that is interrupted or the world stops using the dollar for global trade it will have a massive negative effect on the value of a dollar. Our military reach and esp our navy Air Force ensuring free open and global trade is what hold all of it together. Thats why the idea of an isolationist theory won’t work if we want to keep our standard of living. We have the majority of the resources we need in the USA but our prosperity relies on demand for the dollar and global trade.

[@petersinclair3997]

The USD is trading normally on the DXY against other major currencies. True, the US going isolationist would be a bad move. Look what happened in the 1930s. The USD is the strongest currency by far. However, there are other tradable currencies, the Euro, Yen (a bit sick at the moment), GBP, AUD, CND and CHF (Swiss Franc).

[@mikeiso8963]

@@petersinclair3997facts but defacto US currency is the main trading currency even beyond it just being the petro dollar. Having a massive supply of dollars on the market without the demand for the currency is a recipe for an economic disaster. Our promise after WW2 was we will keep the peace and keep the sea lanes open to encourage global trade in exchange for this y’all use our currency for global trade. For us to keep that promise we have to have the military power, equitpment and global reach to do so. Otherwise the house of cards collapse. Now in a post covid world with declining demographies there will be more war/conflicts than there has been in the last 50 years so we gotta invest. Thats why BRICS is mild threat but couple it with Iran and North Korean escalating, the Saudis openness to trade in diff currencies and a looming conflict in Taiwan that manufacturers the micro processors that go into the majority of USAs computers, comms, infrastructure and even weapons is so dangerous. Hence why we’re seeing so many nations beyond just Europe re-arming. Who knows maybe another wave of global prosperity hits and we avoid the conflict but my guess is something big happens.

[@Badfish1978]

Most citizens in The United states wanted to be natural in the beginning of both world wars. Some things never change.

[@whm_w8833]

6:58 wait, Greek fire?

[@black999c]

Can you guys do a video on the ducht and china, Mark Rutte our old prime minister. Was very friendly with china and wanted to explore the china’s marked.

[@keitho3133]

Chris been watching The 5th Element?

[@LGB-FJB]

Just as Martin Luther called Pope Leo X an ass playing a harp, Chris calls Xi, Pooh eating honey.

[@carlanderson2110]

Ok I get you want to increase spending, what are you going to cut from the budget? We are already way in the red! So where is this new money going to come from?

[@matthewyocom56]

XIPOOH don't get stuck 😂

[@birddawg5878]

Love your news from the from China that's not state released

[@wadewilliston5424]

Is the guy talking actually wearing a toupée?

[@jamesdavid311]

Most of what this guy says is already being done. And in the case of China, we are trying to use time to develop the hardware necessary to win and minimize casualties. I do t see this guy volunteering to fight. Plus, he forgets that tactical nukes can be used in defense….tactical nukes?….what tactical nukes?

[@DanielHarford-x6s]

Well ... i doubt hes afraid!

[@RamonAdao-v1g]

2 years preparation step back of Chinese in the Philippine Waters by the US Forces

[@dmwfourth]

Matt Pottinger is from the Hoover Institution? I heard that place really sucks. 😉

[@Antiwumao]

Pottinger for president!

[@depot-lb8hl]

That would be interesting. I have no relation to this Mr. Matt P., but my last name is also Pottinger. I dunno if I could deal with people suddenly thinking I'm like ruling class or whatever. I hear there was an old British governor of Hong Kong also named Pottinger.

[@sheldonwheaton881]

No! We focus our Space Lasers on the Straits!

[@DrZeeple]

@9:08 In a word President Poopie-pants is the reason.

[@theorize999]

they’re directly challenging us. Seems pretty simple to me.

[@TheFlagUnit]

the U.S. is instigating this. they can’t compete economically so they have to start a war. It’s the USA’s strength.

[@gw7514]

If Trumps come in, Taiwan only has less than one year

[@PurgetheCCPheretics]

KZbin don't censor my comment now! 🤣🤣🤣

[@earlnovero8208]

Our country philippines is not prepare!!!

[@JamesonMagbiro]

China is a good country and both country will help her for her fredom

[@joenevin3746]

Love the depth of your analysis.

[@DK-ev9dg]

They are fricking clowns

[@SpockBorg5]

Someone should really telk Matt and Chris that they both have caterpillars resting right below their noses

[@R0WDY]

Octopi have beaks to.

[@peterwhimster]

How is this education going to happen?

[@rustyshackleford2719]

Reformed absolutist non-interventionist. I still think it's a solid baseline for policy but each situation has to be treated as the unique situation it is. I never dreamed Putin would launch such a barbaric war on totally false pretenses.

[@hermine400]

Do you think Kamikaze is suicidal

[@cob19234]

alot of people dont relize his ex wife and daughter lives in the us.. shame if something happens

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

The resemblance is uncanny...

[@whm_w8833]

Wait what?!! 20:00

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

And there went out another horse that was Red🇨🇳 and Power Was Given to Take Peace From the Earth. Revelation 6: 4. And the number of the army (will be) 200,000,000. By These (will be) 1/3 of Mankind Killed. Revelation 9: 16 and 18.

[@blueeye3044]

Don't you mean 4 months?

[@BertoBoyd]

Sure hope Matt took out all those “uh’s” in his book because wow, I can’t do this podcast because well, uh…… yikes uh uh uh

[@drewstead316]

He left out the part about the food problem as result of invading Poland... It only took 27 months to drag the United States into World War II and Ukraine has been going on for 29 months already.

[@hermine400]

Sun dork

[@petersinclair3997]

And, it could take another 29 months to completely break Russia’s economy, without NATO loosing any military personnel.

[@drewstead316]

There is another well-known China channel and their Chinese friends are making $300 US a month after obtaining their college degree

[@hermine400]

No, you were just kidding, that's the truth,

[@LynRegan]

What a rant this neo con is really paniking

[@rexalexander4843]

meanwhile wallstreet, china is our darling.

[@FoxWolfWorld]

This guy wants a war so bad

[@DK-ev9dg]

He is son of a milkman and sewer rat

[@drewstead316]

I click like on every video when it starts in hopes that Matt will stop crying in the corner

[@nealramsey4439]

More Matts than a Karen's bathroom floor.

[@HavingCoffieWithMrSatan]

Mr Satan said the reeeee

[@BoycottChinaa]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 😸🍻

[@blafonovision4342]

The invasion of the tofu dreg. I’m shaking.

[@youtefhy]

Tofu dreg?

[@awjames1121]

Usa economics is just trading up and down with stock markets, and currency up and down,, not actually really economics ??... is call casino gambling economics,,,??? ..

[@teridacktaljones4553]

🐼

[@jvcaleta]

What cult or sect endoctrinated all of you you? I'm curious!!!!

[@LynRegan]

The toupe is his CIA disguise.

[@julianmansell2379]

We need this guy to ne the secretary of defense.

[@BookofJob3XVII]

a Neocon channel, why the hell this was a recommendation.

[@PurchaseRationale]

Your GDP data are suspect!

[@NCM-xy8ow]

Matt Pottinger is stooping lower and lower into desperation. Showing up on such mickey mouse shows

[@goosecouple]

"Thank a Dem voter near you for making China stronger."

[@Cybersawz]

Dude, lip balm.

[@ImperiumLibertas]

Bro needs a drink of water 😂

[@dzloki]

Boring…

[@drewstead316]

China is already in shambles and 40 banks closed last week, and bankers are already jumping to their deaths unfortunately. This really attractive and well-educated Chinese woman jumped because she fell for the CCP line of bs and she worked in the banking sector. I don't know how much money is worth over there but to go from like 40,000 a month to like 6 or 7 K per month to live off of for the next 30 years is apparently enough to get people jumping.

[@henli-rw5dw]

Haha. You gotta ease off the juice. Not even Western media is claiming that.

[@drewstead316]

@@henli-rw5dw nice try China, nobody wants to believe your bulshit anymore

[@drewstead316]

@@henli-rw5dw nobody wants to talk about the 500 + billion dollars in unrealized losses and nobody wants to talk about the three or four trillion yuan in unrealized losses, because it's a global monetary crisis. China is only too big to fail until it suddenly isn't anymore.

[@DK-ev9dg]

You're lying through your teeth. 258 banks are closing in USA

[@petergohtek5842]

US dare not cross the red lines the Chinese draw

[@Chengy8]

🤣

[@LynRegan]

Hoover was gay.

[@Yannickille]

Who is invading China?😂😂😂

[@petergohtek5842]

These podcast are hypocrite