What is China's next move?

On today’s episode, I had the pleasure of having Tyler Johnson co-host and guest General Rob Spalding to chat about what moves China has been making and what we might see them do soon.

Links from the show:

• War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination

• Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

• Connect with General Spalding on Twitter

• Sempre

• Connect with Ryan on Twitter

• Tyler Johnson on Inside the War Room

• The Way of The Laowai: The Importance of International Self-Awareness for Businesses

About my Guest:

Rob Spalding is a national security strategist and a globally recognized expert on Chinese economic competition and influence. He retired from the US Air Force as a brigadier general. He is a former pilot of the B-2 Stealth Bomber, as well as former director for strategic planning at the National Security Council in the White House. He was the chief architect for the widely praised National Security Strategy.

Rob has lived in Mainland China, both as an Olmsted Scholar and as the senior defense official at the US Embassy in Beijing, and traveled extensively throughout Asia. He is fluent in Mandarin. During the 2016 UUV Incident, Rob averted a diplomatic crisis by negotiating with the Chinese PLA for the return of the UUV, without the aid of a translator.

Rob is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.

STEALTH WAR: HOW CHINA TOOK OVER WHILE AMERICA’S ELITE SLEPT is an executive summary of the last six years of Rob’s effort to combat the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in America and around the world.

About my co-host:

Tyler Johnson began as a temp employee for Dell before working his way up to an executive position, and eventually leading a $1 billion Asian business unit. During his decade as Managing Site Director for Dell in Shanghai, he traveled throughout China, India, South East Asia, Australia, and Japan. Tyler has worked with some of Asia’s largest tech firms and has more than twenty years of experience with Fortune 50 executive leadership across the U.S. and Asia. He continues to work in the technology industry and lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three kids.