GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang
- Gordon Chang: “We’ve got to remember that Xi Jinping inherited a consensual driven political system where nobody got too much credit or too much blame - [Xi Jinping] took power from everybody else and therefore he accumulated unprecedented accountability”
- About 600 Chinese planes have flown through Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone so far this year
- Chang: The U.S. Navy is in trouble because it has a “risk averse officer corps”
SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis
- Where are the transcripts of President Biden’s phone calls with Xi Jinping?
- Sam Faddis: The Biden administration “cut loose” from a common sense definition of domestic terrorism a long, long time ago
BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow
- 25% of the Chinese economy depends on real-estate development
- What will the U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai find after reviewing U.S. tariffs?
- Will China corner the lithium battery market?
- Former head of the World Bank “caved under pressure” and changed China’s ranking, placing them ahead of Switzerland, within the “Ease of Doing Business” metric