As China enters into a quarrel with the Philippines in the South China Sea and holds military drills encircling Taiwan - the question is no longer if China will attack but when? Understanding the warfare strategy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is essential for U.S. national security and important for allies in the Indo-Pacific: India, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, the Pacific Islands, and more. For Episode 33 of the Border Wars Podcast, we sit down with two top Indo-Pacific experts to explain what happens when China attacks and how to respond. Col. (ret) Grant Newsham from the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and Cleo Paskal from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) join the podcast to discuss how China's war against the U.S. and the West has already begun.

Grant Newsham is a retired U.S. Marine and American Diplomat that has served in the Indo-Pacific for decades and lived in Tokyo for more than twenty years and the author of the new book "When China Attacks: A Warning To America."

Cleo Paskal is a former travel journalist and current special correspondent for the Sunday Guardian newspaper in India, focusing her work on the Indo-Pacific, including recent research on the U.S. Freely Associated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands.

En nuestro nuevo episodio de Border Wars Podcast conversamos sobre como ha afectado de manera negativa el Gobierno de Gustavo Petro el crecimiento económico en Colombia, trayendo así mayor desempleo, pobreza, inseguridad y el fortalecimiento de redes criminales transnacionales. Para hacer un claro análisis sobre la crisis social y polarización que vive Colombia, estuvo con nosotros, por segunda ocasión, María Fernanda Cabal, Senadora de la República de Colombia y una de las principales líderes opositoras al Gobierno de Gustavo Petro. ¿Podrá Gustavo Petro realizar una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente en Colombia como lo hizo Hugo Chávez en Venezuela? ¿Petro desencadenará una Guerra Civil? ¿Cuál es la incidencia de actores externos como Nicolás Maduro y el Foro de São Paulo en todo lo que está pasando en Colombia? 📲 Suscríbase ahora a nuestro podcast en diferentes plataformas digitales: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3q4GXaR Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/34IkMzz Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/securefreesoc YouTube: https://bit.ly/BWPodcastYouTube #GustavoPetro #Colombia #BorderWarsPodcast

On April 13, Iran unleashed an unprecedented drone and missile attack against Israel. This follows the brutal terrorist attack by Iran-sponsored Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, and arming the Houthi Rebels in Yemen to function as long-range pirates in the Red Sea. Since November, the Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 40 attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, effectively choking off the Bab al-Mandab Strait and shutting down the Suez Canal. They did this by using armed drones, fast attack craft, guided missiles, and other armament provided to it by the Islamic Republic of Iran. For Episode 31 of the Border Wars Podcast, we sit down with Erik Prince, the founder of the private security company Blackwater and more recent co-founder of Unplugged, a secure software and smartphone, to explain how the Houthi-style long-range piracy tactics are coming to the Caribbean courtesy of Iran and Venezuela. We discuss how an impending conflict between Venezuela and Guyana, over a disputed border territory called the Essequibo, is an extension of Iran's proxy wars in the Middle East with the backing of Russia and China.