With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Peter Pry and Sam Faddis

With Robert Charles, Gordon Chang, Peter Pry and Sam Faddis

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author of Eagles and Evergreens:

• Xi’s militarization of the South China Sea
• Why the U.S. government must avoid investing in anything tied to the Chinese Defense Industry
• The advisability of Trump’s possible purchase of Greenland

GORDON CHANG, The Daily Beast contributor, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, Latest book: Losing South Korea (2019):

• Dissecting President Trump’s Beijing policy
• Prospects for a successful U.S.-China trade deal
• What would a U.S.-Japan trade deal mean for the Transpacific Partnership?

PETER PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both Congressional Advisory Boards, Served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA:

• The threat of North Korea’s EMP capabilities
• Why EPRI refuses to recognize the true vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid
• How President Trump can overcome resistance without the Department of Energy

SAM FADDIS, Former CIA Ops Officer, Spent twenty years as an Operations officer in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Former Candidate for Congress, Senior Subject Matter Expert at Axon/Lockheed Martin, Author of Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA (2009):

• The reconfiguring of the traditional alliances
• The impact of Saudi-Israeli-American cooperation in countering Iran
• Consequences of Turkey and Qatar’s aggressive actions towards the U.S.