Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane offers insight on the state of the U.S. relationship with China.
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Brian break overnight Beijing,
Brian Break overnight Beijing
retaliating as expected
against the: U Dot S ordering it to
close its consulate in China.
The move coming just hours
before the chinese government is
set to be I victimmed from their
consulate in evicted from
their consulate in Houston,
China officials, based in the
consulate, were targeting: U Dot S
energy firms and also perhaps
fomenting some of the unrest
through social media. In U Dot S,
cities
lets bring in Fox NEWS senior
strategic, analyst retired
four STAR General Jack Keane
General, the significance of
this closure, and should we be
wondering or worried about the
fact they havent left? Yet
we gave them seventy two hours and
theyre still there.
Well, they wanted to make
certain they shut down.
They have shut down
when they leave they will
leave. Definitely
China will abide by that. I
dont think we need to be
concerned about it.
The fact that theyre
retaliating, by closing one of
our consulates, tells you its
reciprocal
listen. This has been coming for
some time.
The espionage operation inside
the United States is
significant, its prolific, its
very comprehensive.
The FBI director said about ten
days ago: hes got about five thousand
counterintelligence operations
that hes conducting and over
half of them are chinese and he
gets a new chinese target every
ten hours in this country.
That is absolutely
extraordinary,
and one of the hubs for doing
that, as you pointed out in the
introduction, is the Houston
area, because energy firms and
medical research firms as well,
it is a spying platform,
as are all the other consulates
as well.
This is trying to get chinas
attention that were not going
to sit on our hands any longer
were going to push back
Brian. Why dont, you think
theyre just going to say im
going to wait this
administration out,
I think theyre, going to ill
see who wins before I do
anything.
Well, I think they.
Certainly our adversaries are
doing that
Irans doing that North Korea
thats. Why theres? No
negotiations,
the Iranians want, are unwilling
to negotiate with President
Trump to see if theres going to
be another president,
so yeah thats happening,
but at the same time China is
taking advantage of? U dot s
interests and those of our
allies
and given given what has
happened recently with their
spreading the epidemic into a
pandemic and crushing the
autonomy of Hong Kong. Every
country in the world,
particularly those in the
region but across the planet,
are reassessing their
relationship with China
and what I see happening here,
the administration has got a
whole of government
comprehensive. I approach to
build a broad coalition with our
partners and allies to stitch
together a grand strategy to
deal with China throughout the
rest of the 21st century.
We cannot keep going along the
way we have been, which is
appeasement looking at them as
a competitor only or an opponent,
and not recognizing that they
really are an adversary. They
really are a predator. They
really do want to replace the
United States as the global
power in the world and they
truly want to dominate and
control the Asia Pacific region.
Brian right,
that is those are their
objectives.
Theyre in writing and
President XI talks about it all
the time
Brian right
now weve got to use our
allies to confront it.
Brian for the record. Theres a
new outbreak in the Far West in
China
we never get the details of it,
but theyre not out of the woods
in the virus that they started.
When you look at Huawei over in
the U dot k you look at, I think
France is revisiting, whether
its going to walk away from
Huawei or not
when you see that Australias
reconfigured their entire
military strategy against a
China threat. You wonder if this
is indeed a unique window for
Americans to come together.
Would you call for a group
meeting and a joint statement?
Would that really get chinas
attention?
Well, I think we already have
chinas attention.
I mean there is bipartisan
support in the Congress for all
the sanctions that have been
imposed against chinas banks
and chinas officials, which is
unheard of in the sanction
business against another
country.
The degree that were doing
that
so yes
Chinas, very much aware, given
their presence in this country
of what is taking place in the
body politic with the United
States
and very much aware that Japan
has got a defense buildup going
on tie e WAN does Australia. As
you mentioned, Vietnam is
reaching out to the United
States to partner with them.
Yes, there is a shift thats
taking place, which is good news.
Countries are recognizing. We no
longer can sit on our hands and
deal with this, because Chinas
got a very ambitious, aggressive
and maligned strategy to
dominate and control.
Weve never had a leader like
President XI, since MAO Tse Tung
and hes put his ambitions on a
fast track
and weve got to be able to
stand up to it.
Brian, hey General, now theyre
trying to take advantage of the
virus, and I hope we stand up to
it.
The: u DOT S space, force, genre,
vealed that the russian
General revealed that a russian
satellite fired a missile into
space last week,
whats your reaction to that.
Well, this is a path that the
world is heading towards and
its an unfortunate one,
but you know space is going to
be weaponizedded,
and what were really talking
about here is that everybody has
an anti satellite strategy.
Why?
Because satellites control
Brian everything,
intelligence,
communications, navigation and
all of our weapons, telemetry is
guided by satellite technology.
So what how you take out a
satellite is with a rocket with
a missile with lasers or with
another satellite
thats. What this is about
and thats why this is so
threatening to everyone
to have that kind of technology
is truly weaponizing space, where
satellites are firing, weapons at
other satellites to destroy
them.
Its ineffable that
inevitable that technology would
move in this direction.
The only way to deal with
something like this. We know how
to do that is you have to have
effective deterrence. You have
to have effective capabilities
to stop that from happening.
Brian general, its always
great. To talk to you, especially
at a time with such
consequential things happening
between two world superpowers.
You have it all in perspective
general jack, keen you had a
great jack Keane and you had
a great segment and your Yankees.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.