The Espionage Competition Between the U.S. and China
We begin with a broader exploration of the espionage competition between the U.S. and China following the revelations that the CEO of Nvidia has been snared in a honey trap with a Chinese spy. Joining us is Peter Mattis, the President of The Jamestown Foundation. Most recently, he was a Senior Fellow with the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on loan from the Special Competitive Studies Project where he served as Director for Intelligence. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the Senate-appointed staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He began his government career as a counterintelligence analyst at the CIA and he is the co-author of Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer.
Call For a Generational Change in Democratic House and Senate Leadership Fall on Deaf Ears
Then we look into calls from the Democratic base for a generational change in House and Senate leadership which is falling on deaf ears with the Democratic establishment and their allies in the press. After 11 House Democrats failed to show up for the vote which would have impeached Hegseth, questions now arise about Hakeem Jeffries leadership and we speak with Will Bunch, national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of several books, including The Bern Identity: A Search for Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream. He has won numerous journalism awards and shared the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting and we discuss his latest article at the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Chris Van Hollen fought when no one else would. Make him Dems’ leader.”
A Former Marine Deployed to Afghanistan on What it Means to Serve a Country That Doesn’t Know Its Military
Then finally, on this Veterans Day we speak with Adam Weinstein, the Deputy Director of the Middle East Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A former Marine deployed to Afghanistan, he previously worked as senior law and policy analyst at the National Iranian American Council. We discuss his latest article at Responsible Statecraft, “What it means to serve a country that doesn’t know its military.”