For years, the Chinese Communist Party has aggressively sought to modernize its military, with a focus on anti-satellite weapons, hypersonic missiles, and cyberspace. “What China has been doing, really since the 90s, is invest heavily in the kinds of weapons systems specifically to target where the United States is weakest,” says nuclear deterrence and missile defense specialist Rebeccah Heinrichs.
The goal is to push the United States out of the Asia-Pacific region and eventually supplant America.
In this episode, we sit down with Heinrichs, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics, to discuss how the U.S. should tackle the national security threats posed by China and also by Russia.
Keynotes:
00:00 China exploiting U.S. military weakness
4:47 Why is the no-first-use nuclear policy extremely dangerous?
6:55 U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty
9:48 How big a military threat is China to the U.S.?
13:44 Militarization of the South China Sea
28:22 Cyber warfare
34:10 Biden v. Trump policy on China
38:44 Abraham Accords
42:35 Is Trump tough on Russia?
46:50 Election interference
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