On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Dr. Kathleen McInnis, the director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Jim Townsend, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO who is now with the Center for a New American Security.

Topics:

— Legacy of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the wake of his assassination during a campaign rally outside Osaka

— Beijing’s statement that unification with Taiwan a matter of Chinese rejeuvenation

— British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation, his legacy and who might succeed him at No. 10

— Joint MI5-FBI statement on China, and Director of National Intelligence’s warning on Beijing’s efforts to influence US state and local governments

— Turkey’s decision to allow a Russian ship carrying stolen Ukrainian grain to leave a Turkish port

— Update on President Biden’s trip to the Middle East and status of Iran nuclear talks