Rep. Mike Gallagher on the Challenge of Communist China

Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten

Rep. Mike Gallagher (@RepGallagher) (R-WI) is a leading China hawk in Congress, where he serves on the Armed Services Committee, with a background in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence and as a staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

I had Rep. Gallagher on the podcast to discuss his views on what China really wants, to the parallels between the CCP and the Soviet Union, and the relevance of the Cold War paradigm, to ideological warfare and the challenges America faces in waging it, countering Chinese influence across all sectors of American life, Huawei and whether America needs a national industrial policy, Taiwan, and much more.

What We Discussed

• The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) ultimate goals, and the relevance of its Communist ideology to them
• Why China poses a greater threat to the U.S. than the Soviet Union during the Cold War
• The imperative to wage ideological warfare against the CCP, and the challenge America faces in its arguable lack of moral clarity about its mission
• Countering CHina's influence over U.S. corporations, academic institutions, our media, etc.
• How to triumph in 5G, and more broadly in strategically significant technological areas against the CCP, and whether we need a national industrial policy
• Rep. Gallagher's assessment of China's military might
• Whether America should recognize Taiwan
• The aims of the new congressional China Task Force

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