Hey, welcome to the Bill Bennett show. It's thoughtful conversation about the news of the day picking out of from here and there trying to add the important ones.

We address the existential threats to America, and I think they're several.

Today we'll talk about some of those threats from abroad and from within with Michael Antoni's a former senior national security official in the Trump administration.

And at present he's a writer and lecturer at Hillsdale Colleges Kirby Center.

Michael, thank you for joining us today.

Hi Bill.

How are you, sir?

Good.

All right, let's go to China and everybody, Michael Antoni is one of the heralds here.

He's one of the people who with Donald Trump has told us to think about China, talk about China.

Yeah, too much talk about Russia, but finally with you and the president and a couple of others talk finally about China.

Let's do it by peace and you can rearrange my order or categories or distinctions if you like.

militarily, how do we stack up with China?

In terms of fear numbers, there's this bigger than ours.

In terms of capabilities, ours is still ahead, but I think we're losing our, from the expert I talked to you say that we're losing our qualitative edge day by day.

It slips away.

In terms of, they've been much larger than us for a long time.

Instead, they're catching up in terms of certain capabilities.

But we also have to wonder, and there's no any answers to this question in advance.

It's like, what kind of, if we ever get into a conflict with China, what would it be about?

So I haven't looked at the other day.

I know the United States has 11 fully, you know, what we call fleet carriers, the big boys.

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