HEADLINE: China's Advanced Weapon Systems and Global Asteroid Defense Ambitions GUEST AND TITLE: Rick Fisher, Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center; Gordon Chang, author and geopolitical analyst SUMMARY: Rick Fisher discusses China
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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GUEST AND TITLE: Rick Fisher, Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center; Gordon Chang, author and geopolitical analyst
SUMMARY: Rick Fisher discusses China's new DF-26D ballistic missile, capable of intercepting aircraft carriers up to 4,000 km, and other advanced unmanned weapon systems surpassing US capabilities. Gordon Chang questions US defense against these hypersonic threats. Fisher notes Russia's Energia space program faces financial distress due to the Ukraine war. China proposes an international asteroid defense, inviting global participation. Fisher warns this PLA-controlled initiative could be a front to develop anti-satellite capabilities and challenge the US in future conflicts.
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| 0:23.6 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. |
| 0:29.3 | We're joined by our colleague Rick Fisher, Senior Fellow International Assessment and Strategy |
| 0:34.2 | Center. Back to the parade, celebrating complete fiction, the Chinese Communist Party's |
| 0:40.5 | conquest of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy without help from the United States or anyone else. |
| 0:47.3 | So the parade is a fiction to begin with, and then we have the question of fiction in the parade. |
| 0:53.4 | However, Rick is here to introduce us to a weapon system that the Chinese now believe is their inheritor of the Kill Guam missile variety. |
| 1:04.3 | The DF. |
| 1:05.4 | What number is it, Rick? |
| 1:06.6 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:08.9 | Yes, John. |
| 1:10.5 | In their September 3 parade, the Chinese revealed a new version of their DF-26 intermediate range of ballistic missile. |
| 1:20.5 | They called it the DF-26D. |
| 1:24.1 | It is meant, in my opinion, to be the successor to the previous dong fang df |
| 1:32.0 | 21d which was the world's first anti-ship ballistic missile with a warhead equipped with radar |
| 1:42.6 | really derived from the american pershing two parts of which they were able to actually purchase off of scrap in the United States. |
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