With Michel Gurfinkiel and Amb. Pete Hoekstra

MICHELE GURFINKIEL, Former Editor-At-Large, Valerus Actuelles, Fellow, Middle East Forum, Founder and President, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute

• Michel Gurfinkiel: The Australians have a global strategic outlook, which is why they struck a deal with the U.K. and the United States and cut France out
• Gurfinkiel: The increased presence of Chinese nationals in French schools was originally welcomed, having been seen as a positive. However, attitudes eventually changed after some university student began vacuuming up state-funded research
• China has the largest high speed rail network in the world - Where did the technology come from?
• Gurfinkiel: The French are aware of the Chinese threat and are willing to cooperate with the United States to counter this threat

AMB. PETE HOEKSTRA, former Congressman (1993-2011), Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, former US Ambassador to the Netherlands (2017-2021), Fellow, Center for Security Policy, @Petehoekstra

• Pete Hoekstra: This war is not over - the terrorists are emboldened now more than ever
• Hoekstra: Afghanistan is hell for the people we left behind
• Hoekstra: There are no such as things as “Moderate Jihadists”
• Hoekstra talks about President Biden’s speech to the UN: We are unwilling to confront the Chinese