Thread by @jseldin

NEW: #India-#China "will continue to be a sore spot" given the recent tensions, @INDOPACOM Intelligence Director Rear Adm. Michael Studeman tells @AFCEA

"We have a temporary, tactical reduction in tensions" he says, but strategic tensions remain

#Burma #Myanmar - democracy has been "hijacked and derailed"per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman

"We can expect the Burmese military...will try to maintain total control"

#Thailand - "We can't forget there's a certain degree of instability" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman, noting protests there

Tensions w/#NorthKorea could rise to new levels given reports about nuclear fuel reprocessing, per @INDOPACOM Intel Director RADM Studeman

"It may be the 1st way of getting the new [Biden] administration's attention" he says "It's deeply concerning"

#China - "it's alarming how assertive China has become under Xi Jinping" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman

"We haven't seen this concentration of power since Mao Zedong's times"

#China "definitively want to be the leading power in the world & supplant & replace the #UnitedStates" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman

#China, through various measures, "have crushed dissent" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman

#Taiwan - "one country, two systems does not appear viable given how China has treated #HongKong"

#China is flying aircraft into #Taiwan's air space "almost every day" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman as part of Chinese intimidation campaign, to stress Taiwan

#Beijing also employing non-military tactics to stress Taiwan, he says

"The Chinese aren't backing down...they aren't backing down from their desire to control the area" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman re #SouthChinaSea

"At some point you're going to see fighters [jets]" in the #SouthChinaSea, per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman on #China's developing force posture

US military sees increasing likelihood that #China will use its military more readily around the world, per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman

"You're going to find a very global, expeditionary Chinese military... You're getting a taste of it right now"

"The Chinese are very clever. They're very smart. They have a plan. They're executing the plan" per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman

What capabilities would he like if he could have anything? @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman says secure technology to share information, intelligence "an essential tool for us"

"#India as a counterweight, I think that word is a little too strong" re #China per @INDOPACOM's RADM Studeman