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Eric Sayers
@DEricSayers
Nonresident Fellow at @AEIfdp and @PacificForum board member. Former @INDOPACOM, @SASCGOP. @RSIS_NTU and @WesternU.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Jun 20, 2024
    This is brazen stuff. Good on the Filipinos for filming so Beijing can’t deny. Key corners of Washington have paid close attention but the broader natsec community needs to wake up. I think it would surprise many to learn we have a collective security agreement with Manila.
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    Armed Forces of the Philippines
    @TeamAFP
    Jun 19, 2024
    Replying to @TeamAFP
    The CCG launched a brutal assault on the AFP personnel aboard an AFP Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB), aggressively ramming it and brandishing bladed and pointed weapons, explicitly threatening to harm AFP troops.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Mar 15, 2024
    After you hear all this whining about market access and freedom of speech from the PRC, this graphic is a helpful reminder.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Aug 2, 2022
    The best decision Pelosi can make on her Taiwan stop is to visit the original Din Tai Fung. McCain wasn’t above it. In 2016 we grabbed Din Tai Fung to go after our 4 hour trip to Taipei. Ate it on the way to Tokyo.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Mar 17, 2020
    The USG should join Japan, ROK, EU and others and call for an independent investigation on how this all began. Nothing to hide. If China is interested in the truth they will take part and open their doors. Let’s not spend the next decade entertaining conspiracy and propaganda.
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    吴鹏 Wu Peng
    @AmbWuPeng
    Mar 16, 2020
    More evidence suggests that the virus was not originated at the seafood market in Wuhan at all, not to mention the so called “made in China”.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Feb 4, 2023
    We need to stop “we do this too” equating. The US does air and maritime collection outside of China’s airspace and territorial waters. This balloon is in US airspace and over the continental United States. It is markedly different and a provocation.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    May 30, 2024
    In the trash where it belongs.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Feb 27, 2022
    Germany overhauling their defense policy/budget. Abe raising the idea of a nuclear sharing agreement w/ Japan and pushing the US to overhaul Taiwan policy. The war in Ukraine has opened new policy doors that weren’t there 4 days ago and Moscow/Beijing should be very concerned.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Sep 4, 2024
    We are simultaneously asking Japan to strike a deal with us on semiconductor export controls to address the China tech threat while the Biden administration concludes that it’s an unmitigatable natsec issue for a Japanese company to invest in America. 🤷‍♂️
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    Demetri
    @AsiaLens
    Sep 4, 2024
    Joe Biden set to block Nippon Steel’s takeover of US Steel ft.com/content/b84272… via @ft
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Mar 11, 2023
    Difficult read. Plenty of opportunities for Obama to raise concern/cost with Beijing in winter 2014-15 and throughout 2015. They avoided, studied, waited and did nothing. Different period in US-PRC relations but still stunning how little was done.
    How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea
    How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Jul 23, 2020
    This popular narrative that the US has “rushed” into competition w/ China w/o debate is false. If anything, the optimistic policy approach towards PRC carried on 5-10 years longer than it should have and now we are entering an overdue period of reorientation.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    May 14, 2020
    If the virus originated in almost any other country a transparent investigation to understand and learn from what happened would be noncontroversial. With the PRC, you press for an investigation and you get a government-backed boycott. wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ
    China’s Clout Loses Punch as Trading Partners Push Back Over Coronavirus
    China’s Clout Loses Punch as Trading Partners Push Back Over Coronavirus
    From wsj.com
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Jan 19, 2025
    If you’re making excuses to keep TikTok PRC owned but desperate to signal you are still tough on China by citing other issues you claim are more critical….you’re soft on China.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Feb 24, 2022
    You can’t overstate this. We’ve been telling ourselves conventional warfare will be hybrid or gray for 15 years. Clausewitzian warfare no longer was politically palatable. This shocks my mental map of what the scope of possibilities are.
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    Eric Sayers
    @DEricSayers
    Sep 12, 2022
    Providing Ukraine the equipment it needs to defend against Russia is not only the right thing for US foreign policy, it's the right thing for an agenda that seeks to prioritize Asia/China. A Moscow degraded at a relatively low cost is a net-positive for our 2020s China agenda.