GORDON CHANG, author of "The Coming Collapse of China":
- Assessing the potential for instability as a result of China's "anti-corruption" campaign
- Resistance in China towards the internal leadership of the Communist Party
- The US Navy's displeasure with China for sending an intelligence ship to watch the RIMPAC exercises
Dr. JAIME SUCHLICKI, Director of the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies:
- Putin's
motives for strengthening Russian-Cuban ties, and that relationship's
possible impact on tensions between Russia and the United States
- Concerns that a satellite tracking station in Cuba will be a front for Russian eavesdropping operations
- Potential next steps for Putin's expansion of Russian influence further into Latin America
- The
US's possible isolation in Latin America in contrast with countries
like Russia finding new avenues of trade and building new relationships
in the region
CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist In Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:
- Mystery
surrounding a North Korean cargo ship that entered the Gulf of Mexico,
turned off its transponder for nine days, and is now run-aground off the
coast of Mexico
- Potential Russian involvement in the downing of airliner Malaysian MH-17
- Extension of the Iranian nuclear negotiations past the July 20th deadline