Chinese Influence Operations in the U.S.

With David Goldman, Doug Feith, Michaela Dodge, and Nicholas Eftimiades

DAVID GOLDMAN, Spengler columnist for Asia Times and PJ Media:

• Display of new drones during China’s 70^th Anniversary military parade
• Xi Jinping’s speech this week
• Possible outcomes of Hong Kong protests

DOUG FEITH, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, former undersecretary of Defense for Policy during the Bush Administration:

• Context of the Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities
• Potential negative effects of a substantive U.S. and Israel defense treaty
• Russia’s strategy for the Eastern Mediterranean

MICHAELA DODGE, Research Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• U.S. nuclear deterrence under stress
• Implications of hypersonic missiles
• Need for space-based missile defense

NICHOLAS EFTIMIADES, 33-year intelligence career spanning several US government agencies, Lecturer at the School of Public Affairs at Penn State:

• China’s whole-of-society approach to intelligence operations
• Beijing’s American technology collection
• U.S. inadequacies dealing with foreign influence and counterintelligence