Global Warning with Ryan McBeth

Global Warning with Ryan McBeth

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Global Warning with Ryan McBeth episodes

  • Global Warning 24: Backdoors, Ballots & Battleships

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Buggy motherboard controllers are becoming a security nightmare.
    • Taiwan simulated a Chinese attack.
    • Congress can do better to get boats to the boat people.
    • Russia’s anti-war party is a no-go for September’s parliamentary elections.
    • The US Army gets laser weapons.


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    14 min
  • Global Warning 23: China, Chips and Chatbots

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Foreign apps are getting the deets on our troops.
    • AI scammers are putting human scammers out of a job.
    • China struggles to reverse-engineer challenging US technologies like extreme UV lithography.
    • Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them.
    • And, finally, we’re seeing an expansion of Chinese commercial space capabilities.


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    18 min
  • Global Warning Episode 22: Spies, Security & Superpowers

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Foreign apps are getting the deets on our troops.
    • Corporate and national security are converging in a new threat environment.
    • China is trying to rewrite its soft power playbook to dominate A.I. and beat the United States.
    • Russian hackers are at it again with Laundry Bear.
    • Southeast Asian countries are stuck between China and the United States.


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    24 min
  • Global Warning Episode 21: Spies, Swarms & Straits

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Japan gets a new spy agency.
    • Ukraine’s military performs an amphibious landing with robots.
    • China sees purges within its Politburo
    • Russian forces have a quantity and quality problem.
    • And, finally, Iraq and Syria sign a new pipeline deal.


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    20 min
  • Global Warning Episode 20: Parties, Panzers, and Pirates

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Muslims are crying foul over China’s new ethnic unity law.
    • Samsung sees huge profits for its chipmaking business.
    • China’s South China Sea claims are refuted.
    • Russia’s tanks are evolving—what could that mean for Ukraine?
    • And, finally, maritime security in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden is becoming a nightmare—again.

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    20 min
  • Global Warning Episode 19: Ankara, Ammo, and AI

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Türkiye is a NATO star and the EU hates it.
    • NATO’s cash flow problem is improving, but what about its manufacturing problem?
    • Ukraine and Russia’s war drags on in the periphery, far from Kyiv and Moscow.
    • A look at how the Great Firewall Works in China.
    • And, finally, the coming AI backlash that is brewing in America.

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    17 min
  • Global Warning: Minerals, Malware, and Marines

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • China Flexes Its Economic Muscle on Apples and AI.
    • American college and university students can’t perform academically.
    • What the heck is Operation Endgame?
    • America needs to go beyond talk when it comes to defense in the First Island Chain.
    • The arsenal of democracy is alive and well.

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    19 min
  • Global Warning 17: China Flexes, Finland Nukes Up, and Peace Gets Weird

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • China Flexes Its Economic Muscle on Apples and AI.
    • Bolivia Is in Crisis.
    • Germany Proposes New Changes to Its Retirement System.
    • The US-Iran Peace Is a Win Progress.
    • And, finally, Finland Is Warming up to Nukes.

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    16 min
  • Global Warning Episode 16: Europe Fumbles, America Rearms, and West Africa Boils

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Europe’s next-generation fighter is dead.
    • The FBI Created a Fraudster Most Wanted
    • The American military might be leaving Europe.
    • West Africa is having its Scarface moment.
    • And, finally, the United States is weaponizing its economy.

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    19 min
  • Global Warning Episode 15: Gray Zones, Ghost Wars, and the Party of God

    On this week’s Global Warning:

    • Taiwan and China are at it again.
    • The Harrier jet gets its DD214.
    • Chinese officers don’t seem thrilled about Xi Jinping’s power grab.
    • Chinese spies use LinkedIn, too.
    • A history of Hezbollah (the Party of God) in Lebanon.

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    18 min

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Every week, intelligence analyst Ryan McBeth breaks down the global threat environment in under ten minutes.