Gordon Chang, Luis Fleischman, Michael Braun, Michael Baca

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and Forbes contributor:

• North Korea’s satellite launch yesterday
• Pyongyang’s plans to sell missiles to Iran
• What long-range rocket capability means for US security?
• Currency sinkhole in Japan and China

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, author of “Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Threat to U.S. Security,” Adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University:

• The Zika virus in Latin America
• Economic conditions in Venezuela spurring more immigration to the US
• Cuban immigration has increased enormously since Obama’s naturalization announcement in 2014
• Gitmo as a Cuban, Russian and Chinese naval base

MIKE BRAUN, Managing Partner at SGI Global, LLC, former Assistant Administrator and Chief of Operations at the DEA

• The DoD’s ability to contribute to monitoring of Drug Trafficking has diminished since 9/11 and has fallen to the Coast Guard and DEA
• Unprecedented levels of cocaine and heroin trafficking from Mexico to the US
• Violent criminality that accompanies drug trafficking
• Criminal justice reform as it relates to the war on drugs

MICHAEL BACA, DC based Africa consultant:

• Current status of Boko Haram
• Economic challenges facing Nigeria
• Jihadist threats to the African continent