David Rohde: Moving U.S. Carrier From South Pacific ‘Could Create an Opportunity for China’

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ROHDE: “It’s China. In short, I met with some U.S. intelligence officials recently and asked them, you know, how much do they think China was helping Iran? And then would they make a move on Taiwan? The feeling, you know, initially was that China was sort of happy to sit back and watch the Trump Administration mismanage this war. And they they haven’t seen indications yet that China would try to, you know, take control of Taiwan. That would be an incredibly dramatic development. But you just don’t know. As you know, the administration sort of is moving. As priya said, it’s a surprise that they’ve now made this decision to move the one carrier out of that area that sort of protects Taiwan. So that could create an opportunity for China. The the you said it yourself, Catherine. The lack of planning from beginning to end, that has been the problem. And the planning for sort of worst case scenarios. Clearly, this”