What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is General Robert Spalding.

He's a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General after more than 25 years of service,

a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and an author. China has injected itself into pretty much

every area of life we care to care about, from media to technology, energy, food, transportation,

and even culture. But this strategy wasn't random. It turns out that their entire plan was

detailed in a book from 1999, which General Spalding is very familiar with. Expect to learn

what's actually happening with the Shanghai lockdowns, how facial recognition and drones

are able to automatically find citizens who break laws. Why American companies can't stand up

to Chinese demands, why China's recent increase in military spending should worry everyone,

and much more. It really does blow my mind that China and their plan for future global domination

is just this big, looming elephant in the world that no one appears to care about actually

pointing a finger at. Whilst everybody's accusing everyone else of misogyny or closet homophobia,

no one's actually bothered about the fact that there is a huge superpower on the other side of

the world slowly gearing up to take over everything. And the fact that there is a playbook that was

written nearly 25 years ago doesn't surprise me in the slightest. They are significantly better

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