Steve Yates (葉望輝)
@SteveYates
Senior research fellow for China & nat sec @Heritage. Pod host: @NSwithYates on @iheartradio. Former WH deputy national security advisor to the VP.
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Beijing calls it routine.
Taiwan's NSC chief maps 53 Chinese ships, 34 of them warships, plus the Liaoning carrier group, from southern Japan to the Philippines.
One theater, three targets. "Denial defense in the First Island Chain" can't stay a slogan.
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Hegseth and Japan's Koizumi: "an effective denial defense in the First Island Chain."
The concrete piece: an AMRAAM missile assembly plant in Japan.
Right framing. Deterrence means making a move on Taiwan fail, with the magazine depth to back it.
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A father’s worst phone call came on October 18, 2023.
My daughter Christina overdosed on a counterfeit Xanax laced with fentanyl. What followed were 12 days from the trauma center to the ICU to hospice — and her final breath on October 30.
This is our story. Not a statistic. Not a talking point. A family.
Part 1 of a special series on Nation States with Yates. I hope it helps prevent another family from living it.
Listen here:
#FentanylCrisis# #FentanylAwareness#
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Catch the latest episode of @NSwithYates, summing up the great work under Chariman @BrendanCarrFCC's leadership to keep our Nation State's comms safe.
Nation States: Why the FCC Is Now a National Security Agency
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The CCP is a mafia. The world’s largest, richest, and most insidious mafia. The worst part is that the “free world” made it what it is today. Now we must undo that mistake at great cost and great risk.
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