Security expert Zhou Bo: ‘The USA • Table.Briefings

Zhou Bo is a retired Air Force Colonel of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Trump surprises China – with friendliness. Instead of a harsh confrontation, he made conciliatory gestures towards Beijing. But is this a genuine change of course, or is it just the calm before the storm? Chinese ex-military man Zhou Bo explains why China will not be fooled by illusions and what lessons it has learned from the Ukraine war for Taiwan.

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