David Maxwell

VP Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, Sr Fellow GPF. Small Wars Journal. Opinions my own. "Irregular warfare is the military contribution to political warfare."

[Atlantic Council @AtlanticCouncil]

🇹🇼 @TECRO_USA Ambassador Alexander Tah-Ray Yui: “When we watch Star Trek, we root for Captain Kirk and his crew,” because there’s some “common values that we cherish.”

“When Xi Jinping’s watching Star Trek, he’s probably identifying himself with the Borgs,” he laughs.

[Young Kim @RepYoungKim]

America’s fentanyl crisis is made in China.

The CCP is subsidizing the deadly chemicals killing Americans & sees strategic value in America’s suffering.

No more. I’m working with President Trump to reauthorize fentanyl sanctions & shut down Beijing’s poison pipeline.

[David Maxwell @DavidMaxwell161]

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The lessons are obvious, but we must not ignore them or wish them away.
What the Iran war teaches Kim Jong Un
War, deterrence, and the persistent illusion that rogue regimes can be negotiated into strategic transformation
By David Maxwell
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[Patrick M. Cronin @PMCroninHudson]

With no senior Chinese keynote this year, PLA Major General Meng Xiangqing, a professor at NDU in Beijing, was circumspect about Taiwan but fit into his talking points complaints about (US) hegemonism, AUKUS and Japan. My take: China wanted to control the narrative and not risk putting a senior PLA leader on the spot to face a question about military purges or other sensitive issues #IISS_SLD26 #China

[U.S. Forces Korea @USForcesKorea]

Today at the Shangri-La Dialogue, @CDRUNCCFCUSFK was allowed to answer a question from a Chinese participant about a comment he made on the @US_AWC China Landpower Studies Center Podcast. (1/14)
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