Tag Archives: Gordon Chang

A Strategic Summit: Modi’s Visit to Washington

With Gordon Chang, Michael Cutler, Anders Atencio, and Ingrid Carlvist:

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast Contributor:

  • U.S. alliance with India
  • New Delhi’s counter-terrorism efforts
  • The murder of Otto Warmbier

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

  • Hezbollah’s cells in South America and the United States
  • Known terrorist’s path to citizenship and “insider threats”
  • How terrorists gain easy access into the U.S. through the Visa Waiver Program

ANDRES ATENCIO, Venezuelan Pro-Democracy Activist:

  • Current state of affairs in Venezuela
  • Growing levels of opposition to the Venezuelan government
  • How the U.S. should respond to the Maduro regime

INGRID CARLQVIST, Free-lance journalist in Sweden:

  • The “civil war” in Sweden
  • The lack of will to fight against the tide of “Sharia warriors”
  • Inability of Stockholm’s “feminist government” to address the threat

U.K. Rocked By Third Terrorist Attack in Three Months

With Lord Malcolm Pearson, Michaela Dodge, and Gordon Chang

LORD MALCOLM PEARSON, Member of the House of Lords, former leader of the UK Independence Party:

  • What the London terrorist attack means for Great Britain
  • Prime Minister May’s leadership in combating terrorism

(PART TWO):

  • London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s response to the latest terror attack
  • How terrorism may affect elections in the U.K.

MICHAELA DODGE, Policy analyst for strategic policy at The Heritage Foundation, National security fellow at the Claremont Institute:

  • Nuclear ballistic missile threats to the U.S.
  • Rethinking America’s posture on nuclear weapons
  • Developing approaches for an effective missile defense system

GORDON CHANG, Columnist for The Daily Beast:

  • Harmful obligations of the Paris Accords
  • Possible incentives to renegotiate a climate agreement
  • China’s attempt to alienate Taiwan from the international community
  • Buildup of U.S. naval forces around the Korean Peninsula

Escalation in the Far East

With Gordon Chang, Kevin Freeman, Rick Fisher and Russ Dallen

GORDON CHANG, Columnist for The Daily Beast:

  • Deployment of third U.S. carrier strike group to the Korean Peninsula
  • Pyongyang’s rumored upcoming sixth nuclear test
  • China’s response to Moody’s downgrade

KEVIN FREEMAN, Host of “Economic War Room” on the Blaze TV, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Moody’s Downgrade of China’s debt
  • Origins and function of Bitcoin
  • Terrorist use of Bitcoin

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

  • Chinese advancements in stealth detection
  • U.S. and Chinese arms race for superior computer technology
  • Escalation in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

  • Goldman Sachs’ purchase of Venezuela’s State Oil Company’s Bonds
  • Russia’s attempts to acquire American and Venezuelan energy assets

Trump’s ‘Principled Realism’

With Clare Lopez, Phil Haney, Michael Rubin, Morton Klein and Gordon Chang

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA clandestine officer:

  • The President’s Riyadh speech
  • Trump’s plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

PHIL HANEY, Retired Homeland Security Officer, Author with Art Moore of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad:

  • What Trump’s Riyadh speech means for law enforcement policy
  • Conflict between the Constitution and Sharia law

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

  • Outlook for U.S.-Saudi partnership
  • Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan – largest state supporters of terrorism
  • The Iranian threat to U.S. national security

MORTON KLEIN, President of the Zionist Organization of America:

  • Why past Israeli-Palestinian peace processes have failed
  • Abbas’ “culture of peace”
  • The issues Israel can’t compromise on

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

  • North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test
  • The most important thing that China provides North Korea
  • South Korea’s behavior in light of increased North Korean aggression
  • A China policy that works for America

North Korea’s Progress Towards ICBM

With Gordon Chang, Michael Cutler, Benjamin Weingarten and Megan Oprea

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast Contributor:

  • Another North Korean missile test
  • How China could solve the North Korean nuclear problem

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

  • Why illegal immigration is far worse than we know
  • Refuting the argument that sanctuary cities are safer

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC:

  • Where democracy is dying around the world
  • Media hypocrisy on Turkey
  • Hamas’ ‘new’ principles

MEGAN OPREA, Senior Contributor at the Federalist, Editor of INBOUND:

  • Deteriorating security in Afghanistan
  • Baltic states look to US and NATO for military presence

Kushner Companies’ Visa-for-Investment

With Gordon Chang, Peter Huessy, Michael Waller and Michael Cutler

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger:

  • Jared Kushner’s sister courting Chinese investors
  • Chinese urging U.S. to fire Pacific Command chief Harris

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institution for Aerospace Studies:

  • Evaluating Iran and U.S. interests
  • Tehran’s ambitions in Yemen
  • Should President Trump be trying to meet with Kim Jong Un?

MICHAEL WALLER, Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Were the Russians really trying to get Donald Trump elected?
  • Ted Kennedy’s collaboration with the Soviets
  • Congressional fund to counter Russian propaganda

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

  • How labor unions have undermined U.S. national immigration policies
  • Evaluation of the Trump administration’s record on immigration thus far

Trump Going Easy on China?

With Russ Dallen, Gordon Chang, Suzanne Scholte and John Guandolo

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

  • President Trump’s ‘friendship’ with Xi Jin Ping
  • Latest North Korean missile test
  • Trump’s comments about terminating U.S.-South Korea trade agreement
  • Duterte’s visit to the White House

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, President of the Defense Forum Foundation, Chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition:

  • North Korea Freedom Week
  • How information is being smuggled into North Korea
  • The biggest threat to the Kim Jong Un regime
  • President Trump’s policy on regime change

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and founder of Understanding the Threat:

  • Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation
  • How to equip law enforcement with the information needed to counter the jihadist threat

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of Caracas Capital Markets:

  • Minimum wage increase in Venezuela
  • GM leaves Venezuela after government seizes plants
  • Citgo’s Trump inauguration gift

Will The Border Wall Fight Lead to a Government Shutdown?

With Mark Krikorian, Michael Cutler, Gordon Chang and Michael Rowan

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive of the Center for Immigration Studies, Contributor at National Review:

  • Possible government shut down over border security
  • President Trump’s seeming reversal on the “dreamers”

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

  • Democrats’ flip flop on a border wall
  • Republican leadership weakness on border security
  • Why every state is a border state

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

  • Continued threats from Pyongyang to the United States
  • American citizen detained by the North Koreans
  • Iran’s continued development of nuclear weapons

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist at El Universal and Veneeconomia:

  • Demonstrations in Venezuela
  • What is next for the Maduro regime
  • How the Venezuelan army will respond to the unrest

North Korea’s ‘Provocation’

With Gordon Chang, Marc Lebuis, Jessie Jane Duff and Claudia Rosett

GORDON CHANG, Author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea takes on the World and The Coming Collapse of China:

  • Trump’s shift on China
  • Likelihood of U.S. military action against North Korea
  • Military parade in Pyongyang

JESSIE JANE DUFF, Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research:

  • Restoring American credibility
  • MOAB hit in Afghanistan

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Policy Fellow, Independent Women’s Forum, author of Broadside: What To Do About the UN:

  • Is reforming the U.N. possible?
  • Why China enables North Korea

MARC LEBUIS, Founder and Director of Point de Bascule:

  • Canada’s motion to punish ‘Islamophobic’ speech
  • Illegal immigration in Canada

Tyrant Management

With Jim Hanson, Gordon Chang, Bill Gertz and Steve Bucci

JIM HANSON, Executive President of the Center for Security Policy:

  • Peace through strength

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World:

  • Relationship between China and North Korea
  • Possible actions U.S. could take to end the nuclear threat from Pyongyang

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon:

  • Russian information warfare
  • Return of the Cold War?
  • Danger of ‘strategic patience’

STEVE BUCCI, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for National Security Policy at the Heritage Foundation:

  • ISIS Palm Sunday church bombing in Egypt
  • U.S. strike in Syria
  • What happens after ISIS is destroyed?