This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang-Mach, colleague and friend,

and we're looking to discuss disruptive technology Chinese Communist Party. We welcome

Brendan Weicker, the author most recently of the Shadow War, Iran's quest for supremacy.

The other quest for supremacy is the People's Republic of China on the high end.

What does that mean?

Brandon, a very good evening to you.

The low end is not doing well.

We do not need shampoo bottled in China, and that margin

disappeared when they lost the factory floor numbers to the generation that doesn't exist,

thanks to their brutality of the 20th century. However, they're going for high end, if I understand, the ambitions

of the National People's Congress. And the high end that I'm familiar with, thanks to your guidance,

is hypersonic, quantum yes, and AI to an extent. Are there other matters they're going to

dominate?

Supremacy, always supremacy.

They love that word.

Good evening to you, Brandon.

Good evening, John, and hello, Gordon.

Thank you, as always, for having me.

Yeah, no, the Chinese, this is another round of their high-tech rapid development.

You remember in 2006, they announced a 10-year science and tech plan that they pretty much met most of the benchmarks by this time as planned.

They're now coming out with a new one.

So on top of what you just listed, they're also developing cheaper forms of energy, space-based solar power, which the National Security Agency in 2007 tried to get the Bush administration to build,

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