This show explores U.S. foreign policy, national security, international affairs, and more. Hosts: Doug Bandow, senior fellow at Cato Institute, and Ying Ma, president, American Ideals PAC & Defend American Ideals.
Mark Krikorian, immigration expert, clarifies misconceptions surrounding H-1B visas and analyzes potential immigration policies under a future Trump administration, offering insights into the complexities of high-tech labor and immigration debates in an interview.
14 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
Trump on Legal vs. Illegal Immigration
Mark Krikorian and Ying Ma discuss Trump's stance on legal versus illegal immigration, revealing a divide between Silicon Valley supporters and the MAGA base in this interview.
25 Nov 2024TRANSCRIPT
Trump's Foreign Policy in Second Term
Analysts Jacob Heilbrunn and Tom Switzer examine Donald Trump's potential foreign policy in a second term, exploring nominations, disagreements with establishment Republicans, and divisions within the MAGA movement in an interview with Doug Bandow and Ying Ma.
30 Oct 2024
Trump vs. Harris on Foreign Policy
With the U.S. presidential election about a week away, we break down the differences between Trump's and Harris's foreign policy approaches. How might they deal differently with China, the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, and the world in general? We also discuss the support each candidate has received from national security experts and the shamelessness with which many who publicly or privately hated Trump pursued power in his last administration.
3 Sept 2024
Should the U.S. Fight China to Defend Taiwan?
In recent years, Washington has become increasingly concerned about an impending Chinese invasion of Taiwan. What are America's strategic interests in Taiwan? Should we fight China to defend the island if Beijing invades? What can we do to prevent a war? We discuss with Prof. Andrew Nathan of Columbia University, a distinguished scholar on Chinese politics and foreign policy.
20 Jun 2024
U.S. should enter into peace negotiations with Russia
We discuss the latest updates of the Russia-Ukraine war, including incentives (or lack thereof) for Russia to enter into a ceasefire, danger of the war spilling over to Europe, implications for America and Europe should Ukraine fall, lack of evidence of impending Russian aggression beyond Ukraine, urgent need for the U.S. to enter into peace negotiations with Russia, what Rep. Thomas Massie calls a "psyop" by the intel community to get Speaker Mike Johnson to support Ukraine aid, and much more.
9 Apr 2024
An “America First” China Policy?
What might President Trump’s China policy look like if he were to return to the White House? Will China invade Taiwan later this decade? How can we avoid armed conflict with China in the Taiwan Straits and in the South China Sea? How should America deal with its most serious strategic adversary?
We discuss with Stephen Yates, senior fellow and chair of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute.
27 Mar 2024
Should We Ban TikTok?
The House of Representatives recently voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok unless the company is divested from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, within six months. Lawmakers worry that the Chinese government, through TikTok, could get access to vast troves of American data and spread mass misinformation to the American public. We discuss the national security risks, the proper protections for TikTok's American users, and the irony of the app being popular enough to incur congressional wrath.
13 Feb 2024
Should the US continue to aid Ukraine?
The U.S. Senate just passed a bill to provide another $60 billion to Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. Is it in America’s national interest to continue arming Ukraine? Is Washington helping to stop autocracy and safeguard the U.S.-led world order, or is it risking nuclear confrontation with Moscow and an expansion of the war into Europe? And why has the Ukraine issue revealed such deep divisions on the Right?
In the first episode of this new foreign policy podcast, Ying Ma hosts a lively discussion with Stephen Bryen, a leading defense and technology expert; Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the CATO Institute; and Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest.
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H-1B Visas and Trump's Immigration Policies
Published 15 Jan 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In fact, this is the opposite. It's more draining away knowledge from the United States overseas rather than importing new talent from abroad to build up the United States. And bringing German scientists and engineers after World War II, during 15 years, we brought over a total of 1 ,600 people. This is, you know, Werner von Braun and those kind of people, rocket people, but also other technologists, 1 ,600 people. Nobody's against that level of importing talent because those people really were best and brightest. That's not what H1B has become. Mark, I'm curious about the role of Indian companies. […]
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