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the Martin and Ili Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover

Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale

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And Victor has a new book out called The Dying Citizen, which has done very well and has

been on the New York Times bestseller's list. Victor, how are you doing today? Very good.

Very good, Sammy. All right. Yeah. I'm Sammy Wink and we have a day this morning or this

afternoon, what depending upon when you're listening to it on China. And so Victor, I wanted

to just look at a few things that are going on in the news since there is so much about

China. And then maybe get some of your reflections on the significance of the current events.

And China seems to be a rising star here. But let's review some of the things that have

happened. A hypersonic missile has been launched by China and our general milley seems to

have come out of his shell and he finds this quote concerning and close to a quote, Sputnik

moment. Taiwan's president has recently said that China is increasingly threatening

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