#SPACEX: Musk, Taiwan, Congress, Tesla: the confusion of commerce and security. Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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#SPACEX: Musk, Taiwan, Congress, Tesla: the confusion of commerce and security. Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/24/house-china-committee-elon-musk-spacex-starshield-taiwan.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:03.3 | CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang |
| 0:09.1 | The People's Republic of China in lower-Earth orbit. The People's Republic of China ambitions for the year 2024. |
| 0:18.0 | At the same time, Elon Musk is in the game. |
| 0:21.0 | It's no longer NASA versus Roscosmos versus the unknown. |
| 0:26.0 | Musk is continuing to launch all boosters, recoverable boosters and making money at it. |
| 0:32.8 | Recently there was an item in Indonesia having hired the People's Republic of China to launch a satellite |
| 0:40.4 | and the Chinese launch failed, turned away from the PRC to Elon Musk. |
| 0:47.0 | I welcome Brandon Weichert, who's the author of the book that helps you understand the space race right now in the 21st century. |
| 0:55.0 | Winning Space, how America remains a superpower. |
| 0:58.5 | Brendan, a very good day to you. |
| 1:01.0 | The news that is Musk China is a turn the screw from the failure with the |
| 1:08.4 | Indonesia satellite. |
| 1:09.8 | CNBC headline House China Committee demands Elon Musk open space. CNN, lot of different directions. What is it in straightforward English that the House of |
| 1:26.0 | Representatives is requesting from SpaceX? Good evening to you Brandon. |
| 1:30.3 | Well good evening John and hello Gordon and thanks for having me again. |
| 1:34.0 | Yes, so what's going on is basically the Congress, the United States Congress is very |
| 1:39.6 | concerned that if and when China attacks, A, we're not going to, Taiwan, we're not going to have any |
| 1:45.3 | warning and B, we're going to need to be operating militarily in a degraded electronic environment. And it's really only those SpaceX star shield and starlink type |
| 1:57.6 | satellites that are going to allow for our troops to maintain connectivity in critical moments of battle. |
| 2:04.7 | Star Shield is a satellite communication network for the military. |
| 2:09.3 | So this is not the same as what I have in front of me starting. |
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