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Reacting to the PLA's previous large-scale exercise in the Taiwan straits in 1995-1996, the United States deployed two carrier battlegroups in response. The Chinese undoubtedly noted that this latest exercise, which included missile overflights of the island, led to a far more muted reaction, writes Dean Cheng.
>> translator: yes, they sent it to us, absolutely. >> reporter: in fact, what followed was according to our sources a fountain of freely volunteered intel. not just documents and photos but potentially incriminating videos like this one, after the downing of a ukrainian military aircraft in the eastern war zone. offered up by the fighters themselves. all ukrainian intelligence had to do was pick the ones it wanted, offered the lucrative venezuela contracts and because of covid-19 travel restrictions in russia assembled this belarus to fly out. intelligence sources say the real plan was to lan...
>> we started to call them and say, hey, man, okay, tell me something about yourself. maybe you are not really a fighter. maybe you are a plumber or something like that. and then they started to reveal things about themselves, sending us documents, military ids and proof of where they had fought, and we are like, bingo, we can use that. >> reporter: they're sending you evidence of who they are. >> yes, they sent it to us, absolutely. >> reporter: in fact, what followed was, according to our sources, a fountain of freely volunteered intel. not just documents and photos but potentially incrimina...