Welcome to the dispatch podcast.

I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes.

And this week we are talking to Clawn Kitchen.

He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a former national security advisor

to Senator Ben Sass, a 15 year veteran of the intelligence community and the author of

the fantastic newsletter, the kitchen sink.

That's S-Y-N-C.

It is fabulous.

And this week we are talking China.

Let's dive right in.

You wrote a piece for the dispatch actually and you asked a few questions to yourself

that I would like to pose back to you from yourself.

And perhaps you can catch us up on a little of the news coming out of China in the last

week.

What does this hypersonic missile test capability mean for the balance of power between the

United States and China?

Are we now officially in a cold war and our U.S. companies and technologies assisting

China's military rise?

We're just some of the questions you asked.

So let's just dive into your thoughts on China.

Yeah.

So with the recent hypersonic missile test, the reporting is unclear.

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