Tag Archives: Gordon Chang

How the U.S. Props Up Maduro With Crude Oil Purchases

With Matt Brodsky, Michael Rowan, Gordon Chang and Dr. James Mitchell

MATT BRODSKY, Senior Analyst in Wikistrat’s Analytic Community:

  • President al-Sisi’s visit to the White House
  • Saudi-Egyptian relations
  • Possible war between Hezbollah and Israel

DR. JAMES MITCHELL, Key architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program:

  • The character of sharia supremacists
  • Did Salafists hijack Islam?
  • Should the President designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?

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

  • President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to Florida
  • Beijing’s militarization of Africa
  • China’s second evil child

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist at El Universal and Veneeconomia:

  • The latest from Venezuela
  • Did Maduro actually back down?
  • How the U.S. props up the Maduro regime

The ‘Lone-Wolf’ Fallacy

With Michael Cutler, Brad Johnson, Harold Rhode and Gordon Chang

FRANK GAFFNEY, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy:

  • Refuting NPR

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

  • Sanctuary cities as staging areas for terrorist attacks
  • Khizr Khan’s claim that ‘travel privilege review’ prevented him from attending an event

BRAD JOHNSON, Former CIA Clandestine Operations Officer:

  • The fallacy of the ‘lone wolf’ terrorist
  • Jihadist recruitment at radical mosques and in prison

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

  • Erdogan’s ultimate goal
  • Is Turkey a reliable NATO ally?
  • Erdogan’s European campaigning

GORDON CHANG, Columnist at The Daily Beast, contributor to Forbes.com and World Affairs Journal:

  • Rex Tillerson’s misstep in Beijing
  • Hong Kong’s Chief Executive election results
  • Did North Korea still $81 million from the Fed?

North Korea’s Nuclear Threat

With Peter Huessy, Gordon Chang and Claudia Rosett

FRANK GAFFNEY, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy:

  • Refuting media allegations

PETER HUESSY, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies:

  • Threat from China’s nuclear forces
  • North Korea and Iran’s alliance
  • U.S. nuclear deterrent

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

  • Tillerson’s statement about U.S. military options ‘on the table’ while in Asia
  • What is the red line for North Korea?
  • The difference in Tillerson’s public and private comments to the Chinese

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Foreign Affairs columnist at Forbes.com, Blogs at “The Rosett Report” at PJ Media:

  • The end of the era of strategic patience
  • Working around the U.N.

Secretary Tillerson’s First Official Visit to Asia

With Luke Rosiak, David Barton, Michael Cutler and Gordon Chang

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

  • Congressional IT staffers under criminal investigation
  • What House IT suspects had access to

DAVID BARTON, Wallbuilders Founder and President:

  • Thomas Jefferson’s confrontation with Sharia supremacists
  • The Nazarene Fund

MICHAEL CUTLER, Senior Fellow at Californians for Population Stabilization:

  • Trump’s revised executive order
  • Former Presidents who have also paused refugee programs

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

  • Secretary Tillerson’s trip to Asia
  • The Sunshine policy

Radical Islam

With Jim Hanson, Chris Hull, Gordon Chang and Luis Fleischman

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Lt. Gen. McMaster’s statements about ISIS and Islam
  • How should we refer to our enemies?
  • Pew Research polling data on radical beliefs in the Muslim world

CHRIS HULL, President of Issue Management Inc., Former Chief of Staff for Rep. Steve King:

  • A plan for a Presidential Commission to defeat radical Islam
  • How the Obama administration hindered our ability to identify the enemy

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

  • Beijing’s anger at Pyongyang
  • Kim Jong Un’s recklessness
  • The effect of Kim Jong Nam’s assassination on Chinese – North Korean relations

LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University:

  • How Islamic Supremacists whitewash their antisemitism
  • A recent fraudulent election in Ecuador
  • Latin Americans’ frustration with the Left’s corruption

Submitting to Sharia

With Phil Haney, Diana West, Jim Hanson and Gordon Chang

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

  • How the Obama administration blindfolded American law enforcement from the jihadist threat
  • President Trump’s implementation of pre-existing immigration law
  • Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

  • House Resolution 21 and the injustice it seeks to remedy
  • The COIN doctrine in Afghanistan

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

  • The COIN (Counter-Insurgency) strategy as applied in Iraq
  • Does the COIN strategy place U.S. armed forces in a posture of submission?
  • H.R. McMaster as President Trump’s new National Security Advisor
  • Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown’s defense of slavery under Islam

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

  • The assassination of Kim Jong Nam
  • The instability of Kim Jong Un’s reign
  • The threat to free passage in over 85% of the South China Sea

Judicial Activism Run Rampant

With Jim Hanson, Reverend Gavin Ashenden, Michael Cutler and Gordon Chang

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

  • Judicial activism run rampant

REVEREND GAVIN ASHENDEN, Honorary Chaplain to the Queen (2008-2017), contributor to the London Times:

  • Political censorship in the U.K. on the subject of Islam
  • Quran reading in Glasgow cathedral

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

  • Outrage over Trump’s executive order on immigration affecting 7 countries
  • Three new executive orders on immigration

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

  • North Korea’s most recent missile test
  • Cooperation between Pyongyang and Tehran
  • President Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

A Travesty On The Hill

With Luke Rosiak, David Satter, Patrick Dunleavy, Ambassador Dr. Mark Lagon and Gordon Chang

LUKE ROSIAK, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

  • Pakistani-American IT staffers fired from Capitol Hill
  • Could the rogue IT staffers have accessed sensitive government information?
  • Were background checks run on the staffers?

DAVID SATTER, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, author of The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin:

  • Vladimir Putin’s ascendancy
  • History of FSB bombings designed to elevated Putin
  • The poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza
  • President Trump’s rhetoric towards Russia

PATRICK DUNLEAVY, Former Deputy Inspector General for the New York State Department of Corrections, Author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism’s Prison Connection:

  • Islamic radicalization in the U.S. prison system
  • A registration system for radicals released from prison
  • The “criminal justice reform” movement

AMBASSADOR DR. MARK LAGON, Centennial Fellow and Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service:

  • The US-Saudi Relationship
  • Riyadh’s “double game”
  • Is Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, a reformer?

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

  • Did Trump capitulate on the “One China” policy
  • Beijing’s continued sense of American weakness
  • President Trump’s upcoming visit with Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe

Fake News: A Case Study

With Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang and Richard Pollock

FRANK GAFFNEY, President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy:

  •  The New York Times wrongly smears Frank Gaffney

CLAUDIA ROSETT, blogger for PJ Media, Contributing Editor of The New York Sun:

  • Ambassador Haley’s harsh words for Putin’s Russia
  • Did President Trump draw a moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia?
  • U.S. Foreign Policy towards Iran

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

  • Secretary of Defense Mattis’ trip to Asia
  • China’s nuclear arsenal
  • The need to sanction Chinese banks for indirect support to Iran and North Korea

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter for The Daily Caller:

  • Liberal hypocrisy on refugee resettlement
  • A developing story about five recently-fired IT staffers from Capitol Hill

No, It’s Not a “Muslim Ban”

With Jim Hanson, Daniel Horowitz, Gordon Chang and Michael Cutler

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

  • President Trump’s legal executive order is not a “Muslim ban”

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

  • The legality of the so-called “Muslim ban”
  • Selecting immigrants who share American values
  • The Presidential duty to protect the United States

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

  • Apple v. Qualcomm in Chinese lawsuit
  • China’s discriminatory application of the law against U.S. interests
  • Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs
  • North Korea restarts a plutonium reactor
MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Senior Fellow at Californians for Populations Stabilization:
  • Original purpose of immigration laws
  • Terrorists who have abused U.S. hospitality
  • What else should President Trump do to implement a comprehensive immigration strategy?