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We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Doshinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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Today we're joined by Michael Cunningham.

He's a visiting fellow in the Asian Studies Center over at the Heritage Foundation

and the author of a really interesting and important new report out from Heritage.

You can read it on heritage.org.

It's called Why State Legislatures Must Confront Chinese Infiltration.

Michael, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Of course, and I think it's your first time on the podcast.

If you could start just by walking us a little bit through your career,

how did you end up as a visiting fellow over at Heritage focusing on these issues?

Yeah, thanks for asking.

Up until about a year ago, I was actually in China.

I was working as a political risk analyst.

I was a sort of less known area of business consulting, so informing businesses about how the political situation in China affects their profits and their operations.

And so I was doing that, but all we sort of felt like I could be doing more.

I mean, it's really important to work for businesses to help them be able to provide for their employees, of course.

But I was never driven so much by profit so much as I was, you know, wanting to use the expertise I've developed to make a bigger difference on policy.

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