Sep 28, 2026 · 46 min · 9 segments
A U.S.-registered company called ETS Solutions North America won a piece of a $2 billion Army combat vehicles contract — testing equipment for a future warfare program. The problem: it shares a…
Hagar ShamaliHost
Jay SolomonHost
I mean, it just feels like our national security state is just totally penetrated.
It's like a sieve, whether it's foreign money or foreign influence operations or foreign companies.
I don't know if it's a counterintelligence problem or a fact that our system is basically incapable of policing itself, you know, probably because of corruption.
But yeah, this is just indebted to me of a bigger problem where our system is just being totally penetrated by foreign governments and we can't stop it for some reason.
Well, you have two threats here at once, right? You have on one hand, the fact that this case actually represents a pattern of behavior on the part of the Chinese Communist Party, because Beijing has repeatedly stolen designs of most major U.S.
But the threat is even worse when you think about how China advances this goal through opaque ownership structures, how they exploit supply chain systems.
I mean, it just feels like our national security state is just totally penetrated.
It's like a sieve, whether it's foreign money or foreign influence operations or foreign companies.
I don't know if it's a counterintelligence problem or a fact that our system is basically incapable of policing itself, you know, probably because of corruption.
But yeah, this is just indebted to me of a bigger problem where our system is just being totally penetrated by foreign governments and we can't stop it for some reason.
Well, you have two threats here at once, right? You have on one hand, the fact that this case actually represents a pattern of behavior on the part of the Chinese Communist Party, because Beijing has repeatedly stolen designs of most major U.S.
But the threat is even worse when you think about how China advances this goal through opaque ownership structures, how they exploit supply chain systems.
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