Bradley Thayer

James Fennell, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, and Bradley Thayer, a national security expert, dive into the pressing need for the U.S. to acknowledge and address past intelligence failures regarding Communist China. Fennell underscores the challenge of institutional bias that hinders this admission, while Thayer advocates relocating CFIUS to the Department of Defense to better safeguard U.S. interests. They propose a new Team B to reassess threats from the CCP and stress the necessity of viewing the Chinese Communist Party as a persistent adversary overall.