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Bradley Thayer
Foreign policy and national security expert who co-authored a book on the China challenge and recommends policy measures including CFIUS reform and a new Team B for China analysis.
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Nov 1, 2025
• 11min
44: The Urgency of Admitting Failure: Team B, CFIUS Reform, and Confronting Communist Ideology. Jim Fanell and Brad Thayer emphasize that the initial step toward addressing the crisis requires the US system to admit strategic failure. Fanell notes this is ext
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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.
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