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Yeah, I caught that in the video.
Wilkerson makes a metaphor of creatures of the wild because the Chinese live by citing animals as their examples of human behavior.
One time the US 4-star admiral in command of all US forces land sea air in the Indo-Pacific emerged from a long and winding meeting in Beijing with CCP Party military brass and said this to a reporter's question of what if anything was accomplished: "Well, I can't say, because they talked a lot about animals." He zinged 'em a good one on that because, and yes it's true, Chinese are fixed and locked in the ancient world and many of its primitive aspects -- and we know it. They still don't recognize the difference between higher animals and lower animals, which is scary.
Chinese logic is simplistic as one of my favorite faux pas goes, which is to "kill the chicken to scare the monkey (away)." Well Gen. Patton killed the chickens and the monkeys plus a lotta krauts to beat 'em all.
And as I'd posted after viewing the dated video, CCP Boyz in Beijing just completed a review of their No First Strike policy and decided to keep it. If the CCP attempts to invade Taiwan it will fail. Indeed, Beijing doesn't have possession of Taiwan so it would not be an existential disaster for the CCP Boyz and their Party. Would the ruling clique led by Xi get ejected, yes. But it's not necessarily the end of CCP rule in their wholly owned subsidiary the PRC that the Party created, owns, operates and profits from immensely. Mainly, there's no alternative, to include a PLA dictatorship given the PLA and its components would be devastated due to their whupping by Taiwan et al.
Taiwan btw has been mass producing its own offensive missiles since 2018 including two that can reach Shanghai and Beijing. PLA et al would bombard Taiwan before launching of course which means Taipei would devastate the China mainland hitting military bases on the coast and inland targets of 4C, blasting dams and transportation junctions and so on. Taiwan is making clear it's to be taken seriously as this is a complete and radical change of its War Plan of Defense, ie, massing an effective offense against the mainland. Make it prohibitively costly to Beijing right at home. Wreck any invasion force the instant it pulls up anchor -- to include troop transport ships of course -- and fires up its warplanes etc.
