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Taiwan Drones And Middle East

Steve Yates, co-host Gordon Chang: Yates and Chang discuss American defense startups partnering with Taiwan to build red-free drone supply chains. Yates notes that private innovation is outstripping government bureaucracy, rapidly enhancing Taiwan’s defense deterrence against Chinese aggression. Turning to the Middle East, Yates describes Chinaas a supreme agent of chaos supplying missile components to Houthi rebels in Yemen, thereby destabilizing regional security, threatening crucial maritime choke points, and placing Saudi Arabia under severe strategic pressure. (3)