Ep 237: Toshi Yoshihara on China’s Subversive Strategies
Toshi Yoshihara, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and author of Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy, joins the show to discuss how the PLA took Beijing in 1949 by subversion, and how they may yet seize Taiwan.
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Show Notes
Toshi Yoshihara, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and author of Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy, joins the show to discuss how the PLA took Beijing in 1949 by subversion, and how they may yet seize Taiwan.
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• 01:53 Introduction
• 03:24 Peaceful liberation
• 07:19 Planning and preparation
• 10:36 Isolation
• 17:30 A tradition of manipulation
• 23:51 True believers
• 28:23 Helpless
• 34:55 Political warfare
• 41:53 Surprise
• 47:32 Holy Grail
• 50:51 Fault lines
• 57:44 What to read?
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