Sharon Burke, Senior Advisor at New America, discusses the United States’ dependency on China for rare earth minerals and the need to increase production of these materials elsewhere
Ron Marks, President of ZPN Cyber and National Security Strategies, discusses the United States’ economic relationship with China and foreign policy considerations
Jerry Hendrix, Vice President of Telemus Group, discusses what the U.S. has done and needs to do to counter the territorial claims Russia is making in the Arctic Ocean
Jerry McGinn, Executive Director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, discusses problems with depending on countries like China in the public health supply chain
Roger Zakheim, Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation & Institute, discusses updating the Defense Production Act and recognizing that a 21st century dependency on autocratic regimes makes us vulnerable
Matthew Kroenig, Director of the Global Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council, explains why he believes pessimism about great power competition with Russia and China is unwarranted
Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini, explains how the Pentagon should change the way it thinks about research and development spending to keep its edge over competitors
