Joining the podcast this week is Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter for The Washington Times, and shares insights into the ongoing conflict between China and Taiwan. Ellen provides perspective on the much publicized Pelosi trip to Taiwan and why the timing of that trip raised concerns in China as well as the complicated relationships the two countries have with international governments around the world, complex supply chain interdependencies (particularly in semiconductors), cyberattack impacts (or not) and why this conflict is different from Russia and Ukraine. This is truly a riveting and insightful conversation that you won't want to miss.

Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter, The Washington Post

Ellen Nakashima is a national security reporter for The Washington Post. She covers cybersecurity counterterrorism and intelligence issues. She has probed Russia's efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and contacts between aides to President Trump and Russian officials, work which led her and her colleagues to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2018. She was part of another team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2014 for reporting on the hidden scope of government surveillance and its policy implications. Nakashima has also served as a Southeast Asia correspondent and covered the White House and Virginia state politics. She joined The Post in 1995.

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