The One with Mara Jade
Bombshell
War on the Rocks
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week on Bombshell Loren and Erin hold down the fort and ask the brilliant Elsa Kania to explain the new Chinese defense white paper. Britain has a new PM, Pakistan’s visited the US, and there are ongoing protests in Moscow and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, we might have a budget deal? And the president keeps trying to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia. Erin finally saw Capt. Marvel and we collectively wish cast a real Mara Jade adventure.
Links
China
- Mike Yeo, "China: US in Pursuit of Absolute Military Superiority," Defense New, July27, 2019
- Anthony H. Cordesman, "China's New 2019 Defense White Paper," CSIS, July 24, 2019
- Elsa B. Kania, "Innovation in the New Era of Chinese Military Power," CNAS, July 25, 2019
- Elsa B. Kania, "China's Army Can intervene in Hong Kong, Says Beijing," CNAS, July 24, 2019
Imran Khan
- Asad Hashim, "Q&A: Was Pakistan PM Imran Khan's Visit to the U.S. a Success?" Aljazeera, July 25, 2019
- Michael Kugelman, "Despite Khan's Visit, U.S.-Pakistan Ties Aren't Ready for a Reset," World Politics Review, July 26, 2019
Russia Protests
- "Russia Protests: Thousand Arrests at Moscow Rally," BBC, July 27, 2019
Hong Kong protests
- "Hong Kong: Thousands Mobilize for Anti-Triad Rally," DW, July 27, 2019
Budget Deal
- Burgess Everett and Melanie Zanona, "Trump Fumes Over Border Wall as Budget Deal Advances," Politico, July 28, 2019
Hyten Confirmation
- Helene Cooper, "I have a Moral Responsibility to Come Forward: Colonel Accuses Top Military Nominee of Assault," New York Times, July 26, 2019
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bomfell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Warren DeYoung-Shallman. And we are back in Washington, D.C. this weekend, which is oh so lovely, even if it is 90 degrees outside. Unfortunately, Rada is not feeling well and is unable |
| 0:24.4 | to join us this morning, which is a total bummer, but she lives in a biohazard war zone of small |
| 0:31.2 | children. So I guess these things are going to happen. In her absence, Lauren, what are we drinking? |
| 0:39.8 | We have, it is 10 in the morning on a Sunday, so we're drinking a tropical bland Italian soda from Whole Foods. And it's lovely. I'm also having a blue moon because Aaron inspired me with the fact that you can drink beer in the morning. I mean, you can. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. You can drink beer anytime. |
| 0:56.0 | It turns, I mean, I actually bet that blue moon goes pretty well with this Italian soda. Yeah, |
| 0:59.4 | it works out quite well. Yes, I would be very excited about that. We also had, we did have a listener |
| 1:04.7 | last week who took our conversation about the de fenestration of Kim Durac and turned it into a English cocktail. |
| 1:13.2 | That's right. |
| 1:14.1 | Which we should post in the show notes because it looked delicious. |
| 1:17.9 | It did. |
| 1:18.5 | I think there was frenet involved. |
| 1:20.6 | I was looking for some green chartreuse, but there were many possibilities. |
| 1:24.4 | It was all very symbolic, too. |
| 1:25.8 | He had clearly thought about what he was putting into |
| 1:27.7 | the drink as to what symbolized this... The English and the American and the everything sort of |
| 1:34.1 | the bitterness. It was what the Frenet, I think, was for something along those lines. So we love it |
| 1:39.2 | when we inspire. We drive people to drink. That's really what we aspire to here on bombshell. We are very lucky today to have |
| 1:48.5 | Airswile friend of the show, Elsa, Kanya, joining us. So, hello, Elsa. Good morning. Glad to be here. |
| 1:55.4 | Elsa is an adjunct with me at the Center for New American Security, as well as somehow managing to fit in being a PhD student at Harvard and the government program. |
| 2:04.4 | Yeah, this is not something that would have been consistent with my experience in that home department. |
| 2:09.5 | It wasn't a bad PhD student, to be perfectly honest. |
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