I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang joins me as my colleague and co-host, and we're

very pleased to bring Captain James Fennell to the front of their line to talk about a new

report out of Europe. Jim is the co-author of embracing communist China, America's greatest

strategic failure. He's also a government fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy.

He's in Europe.

Captain, a very good day to you.

The headline that I asked for comment upon, it is Stark.

Financial Times in these last hours, Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target U.S.

bases. Subhead. Le leaked documents show IRGC, the state with an estate in Iran, secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March.

I know you're not surprised, Captain. I cannot surprise the U.S. Navy, but this seems especially

crude for China knowing that they would be caught. Or did they want to be caught? Good day to you,

Jim. Good day, John and Gordon. I think it's interesting, the timing of this report. I don't doubt that there's some truth to it.

I'm not sure there's a direct linkage on do we know how well the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' command and control and ability to, you know, it said in the article they were tasking the satellite, this commercial satellite,

the T-0-1 Bravo, which is from a Chinese satellite company that has apparently half a meter resolution,

which is much better than the five-meter resolution that the Iranian designed satellite's had.

But presuming that there was some kind of information passed, and I agree with Gordon 100%,

that this is an affront by the Chinese that the president should weigh very heavily.

I know that he wants to have a deal.

I know the Chinese want to make a deal

so that they can sell their goods in America,

but we cannot abide with China providing targeting data

to a rogue regime in Iran that's killed Americans.

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