Government Matters (Full Show) – June 16, 2022
Deterring Chinese attack on Taiwan; China’s third aircraft carrier launch; shoring up strategic mineral stockpile
Deterring Chinese attack on Taiwan; China’s third aircraft carrier launch; shoring up strategic mineral stockpile
President Biden has said that if China attacks Taiwan, the United States would defend Taiwan militarily, but given China’s intense armed forces modernization, would that be possible? Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said he does not think it is possible to predict whether the United States would win against China when defending […]
New satellite imagery shows China’s third aircraft carrier – its largest and most advanced – may be afloat soon. In the last few days, the Chinese have flooded the dry dock where the carrier was under construction for a few years, indicating they are getting closer to initial trials, said Warren Strobel, national security reporter […]
The defense industrial base relies on basic materials like critical minerals and rare earth elements. The problem is many of these materials come from China and, to a lesser extent, Russia. There has been a “drastic reduction” in the National Defense Stockpile, a federally owned stockpile of these minerals, since 1952, said Defense News Congress […]
