China’s Communist Party-ruled government engaged in the most dramatic military buildup of any nation since World War II. Beijing is on track to amass 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 and there is growing concern that China is operating a Cold War-style cognitive warfare campaign designed to weaken U.S. democracy. Washington Times National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with author and great power competition analyst Seth Jones at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for a discussion about how and why China’s defense industrial production base is dangerously outpacing that of the United States and what Washington should do to respond.

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