Hey, everyone, welcome to from the kitchen table. I'm Sean Duffy along with my partner for the podcast

and my lovely wife, Rachel Campos Duffy.

So great to be back at our kitchen table, Sean.

And today, you know, I'm kind of a China hawk.

So are you.

And every now and then through our work, we meet people who are just really focused on this idea of not just China and the threat they are to America,

but really the Chinnification of America.

And so one of those is Gordon Chang.

He is the author of the coming collapse of China.

He also works with the Gatestone Institute,

where he's a senior fellow.

And he was on fox and friends

this weekend talking to me about that really weird godfather like scene we saw at the quasi

coronation of chairman she over the weekend and so I thought we'd bring him on the podcast to sort

to give us some more in-depth information about what we saw and what it means and everything related to China.

Gordon Chang, thanks for joining us at the kitchen table.

Well, thank you, Rachel, and thank you, Sean.

You're coming to us from Anchorage, where you're actually going to speak to our Air Force about China, I presume, right?

About China, about the extraordinary events of the last seven days, but also in general about China's challenge to not only the United States, but the international system.

Absolutely.

So why don't you just set the stage for us by telling us what happened at, I call it the

Coronation, but there's probably some other Chinese official name for it.

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