National Insecurity

In recent years, Washington has become increasingly concerned about an impending Chinese invasion of Taiwan. What are America's strategic interests in Taiwan? Should we fight China to defend the island if Beijing invades? What can we do to prevent a war? We discuss with Prof. Andrew Nathan, a distinguished scholar of Chinese politics and foreign policy at Columbia University.

We discuss the latest updates of the Russia-Ukraine war, including incentives (or lack thereof) for Russia to enter into a ceasefire, danger of the war spilling over to Europe, implications for America and Europe should Ukraine fall, lack of evidence of impending Russian aggression beyond Ukraine, urgent need for the U.S. to enter into peace negotiations with Russia, what Rep. Thomas Massie calls a "psyop" by the intel community to get Speaker Mike Johnson to support Ukraine aid, and much more.

What might President Trump’s China policy look like if he were to return to the White House? Will China invade Taiwan later this decade? How can we avoid armed conflict with China in the Taiwan Straits and in the South China Sea? How should America deal with its most serious strategic adversary? We discuss with Stephen Yates, senior fellow and chair of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute.

The House of Representatives recently voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok unless the company is divested from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, within six months. Lawmakers worry that the Chinese government, through TikTok, could get access to vast troves of American data and spread mass misinformation to the American public. We discuss the national security risks, the proper protections for TikTok's American users, and the irony of the app being popular enough to incur congressional wrath.

The U.S. Senate just passed a bill to provide another $60 billion to Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. Is it in America’s national interest to continue arming Ukraine? Is Washington helping to stop autocracy and safeguard the U.S.-led world order, or is it risking nuclear confrontation with Moscow and an expansion of the war into Europe? And why has the Ukraine issue revealed such deep divisions on the Right?

We speak with Rick Fisher, senior fellow on Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

Interview with Michelle Easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women

Can Kungfu be used for real fighting, or is it just a series of movements akin to a dance? How do Kungfu practitioners stack up against pro-fighters in mixed martial arts, or street thugs for that matter? 

We talk to Coach Marcus Reeves, owner and head coach of the UFC Gym in Sacramento, California. 

Conventional wisdom in foreign policy circles says that constructive engagement with China in decades past has been an unmitigated disaster, but just because lots of people in Washington say the same thing does not make it true. We speak with Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, about what went right and how to shape future bilateral relations.