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S8 Ep412: Guest: David Shedd. Shedd warns against selling advanced chips to China, describing Beijing's "capture, cage, and kill" economic strategy and criticizing the U.S. administration's transactional approach. With Thaddeus MCCotter co-host

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Guest: David Shedd. Shedd warns against selling advanced chips to China, describing Beijing's "capture, cage, and kill" economic strategy and criticizing the U.S. administration's transactional approach. With Thaddeus MCCotter co-host.
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0:00.0

I'm John Batchew with my colleague and friend,

0:18.8

That is McCotter, American Greatness, my co-host.

0:21.4

And we're very pleased to speak to the author, David Shedd,

0:25.9

former acting DIA director, who with a former DIA case officer,

0:30.8

Andrew Badger, have a new book out that's upsetting.

0:33.9

It's upsetting if you consider that the U.S. is now faced with a existential threat by the People's Republic of China.

0:42.1

There's no other way to interpret events of the last years and the last weeks, for heaven's sake.

0:48.2

Shee Jinping just wiped out his whole general staff.

0:52.1

There were seven people at the table for the military commission

0:55.2

commanding life or death for the people of Asia. Five of them are gone. What's left is she

1:00.7

and an accountant sitting at the end of the table whose job was to provide the corruption

1:05.8

for firing the other five, including the major military officer. This is a country we're negotiating with.

1:12.1

This is said to be a stable competitor.

1:15.6

David, I bring up that extraordinary example because it just happened.

1:20.1

What is Google doing?

1:22.2

What is Microsoft doing?

1:23.5

For heaven's sakes, what is Nvidia doing,

1:26.4

palling around with a gang that always has a

1:30.5

stiletto in its hands? Well, I mean, it's interesting that you should raise

1:36.5

Nvidia. Now, the H-200 chips have been approved to the tune of about $10 billion in sales to

1:43.6

China.

1:47.0

I am deeply concerned by that.

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