With Robert Charles, Ed Timperlake, Dan Celia and Jeff Nyquist

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," Twitter: @RCharles4USA

• Robert Charles: When you have an absent President, his administration begins to freelance itself
• Judge Laurence Silberman argues that the Supreme Court ruling on libel needs to be overturned and readdressed

EDWARD TIMPERLAKE, former Director of Technology Assessment, International Technology Security, former Representative, National Counterintelligence Executive Committee, US Department of Defense, Captain (ret.), US Marine Corps (1969-1975), Author, Year of the Rat

• Ed Timperlake: We are in a period of “maximum danger” – President Joe Biden did not instill the confidence of a unified approach to deterrence at yesterday’s press conference
• For decades, China has been waging an “Information War” across the straits on Taiwan
• Timperlake argues that the US needs to help the Taiwanese dig-in

DAN CELIA, President and CEO, Financial Issues Stewardship Ministries, @financialissues 

• Recap on President Biden’s comments about China during his first White House press conference yesterday

• Dan Celia: It wasn’t just a softball game, it was a tee ball game

• Celia argues that foreign firms conducting business in China are doing so at their own risk

JEFF NYQUIST, Writer, Newsmax, WorldNetDaily, SierraTimes, Financial Sense and Epoch Times, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War and The New Tactics of Global War” and "The Fool and His Enemy," JRNyquist.blog, @JRNyquist

• Jeff Nyquist: The United States has a long history of "cheap moralizing", as seen during the First and Second World War - which is not a strategy
• China's strategy: "hyper-instrumentalist" - Will do anything to become a global hegemon
• What the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact can tell us about US-China relations today