Think tank

How's her book, though? Do you know? She is.

Nah, but I reckon they have think tanks and stuff who buy the books to help push the numbers.

Whereas Alex, you don't have anyone for that.

You don't have anyone to do that for you, right, for your book behind you.

I would like to hear your opinions on it.

The first one is that in 2018, when I was working at Think Tank in Beijing, we could not understand why Trump launched the first trade war against China.

So there was this idea in China, it's like we try to understand this thing, and there was this narrative that because the right wing in the United States, including Trump, is probably representing the interests of the manufactured capital more, while the financial, like the Democrats, they are more aligned with the financial capital of the United States.

So the financial capital people are more, interested in exploiting the cheap labor of China and working with us, while the manufactured capital people are more interested in bringing the industry back to the United States.

And news reports the Pentagon is working on a new intelligence agency to better wage economic warfare against China and other U.S. rivals and rumors that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had died.

Joining us today to discuss all this and more are Dr. Patrick Cronin, the Asia Pacific Security Chair at the Hudson Institute Think Tank, former Pentagon Europe Chief Jim Townsend, who is now with the Center for a New American Security, and a co-host of the Brussels Sprouts podcast, A Must for Anybody Interested in the Transatlantic Alliance, and former Pentagon Comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim, who counts the Center for Strategic and International Studies among his many affiliations.

And Michael Herson, the president of American Defense International, is off this week.

Before we get started, a quick word from today's sponsor, L3Harris.

Recognized by the U.S. government under its extraordinary ability classification, Matthew has served as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Aerospace and NASA.

He's the founder of AIethics.world and the World 3.0 Global Think Tank, and has spoken at MIT and appeared on BBC Radio, Gaia TV, Coast to Coast AM, and more than 150 podcasts.

Alongside his technology work, Matthew is a teacher of consciousness whose Universal Human Academy explores spirituality, inner wisdom, and human potential, bringing decades of spiritual inquiry into his vision for a technological future.

Matthew, welcome to Rooted in Wild.

And talk to other people.

Create a community.

If you're into well-being of a particular genre, you know, form a community or a little think tank and say, how can we use AI to expedite our services to other people so we can start helping lifting up other people? You know, do things like that, you know, and have fun, man.

I mean, I love it, to be honest.

So we're trading in the STN think tank last night and we've got Meta comes out with earnings flying high.

Tesla comes out with earnings flying high.

IBM comes out with earnings flying high.

This totally the bull trap of bull traps last night.

So we had to run with it.

We got to give a shout out to Sam from the STN Think Tank, who is our meme specialist here now.

Continues to make awesome memes.

Shout out to Sam.