China tries to get #1 ep 4 sea 2
Robertjames
English - January 31, 2021 09:44 - 4 minutes - 4.08 MBMusic History Music Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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China tries to get number one In 2020, Beijing tried to behave much like the proverbial Rat. A country which, under President Xi Jinping since 2013, had been consolidating its global influence, saw an opportunity in a world distracted with the pandemic.
While it was targeted initially for being the source of the coronavirus, Xi’s regime turned around and started to flex its muscle in the region. The Indo-Pacific was its playground, where Chinese naval or militia forces rammed a Vietnamese fishing boat, “buzzed” a Philippines naval vessel, and harassed