Feb 5: Dr. Christian Leuprecht, The United States Shoots Down China's Weather/Surveillance Balloon.

The United States shoots down China's weather, no, make that surveillance balloon and China expresses its displeasure. United States Air Force General Mike Minihan in an internal communication warned last week the U.S. and China "will fight in 2025."
What to make now of the 'balloon incident'?
As well: Our guest Dr. Christian Leuprecht wrote a 2018 op ed titled "China's silent invasion of Western universities" and pointed to three Canadian universities, Waterloo, Toronto and McGill as being particularly a focus of China and the People's Liberation Army.
This past week federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne criticized Canadian universities for collaboration with China's military scientists and declared new national sercurity guidelines were on the way. Globe and Mail reports 50 Canadian universities have conducted extensive research with China's military since 2005.
Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Author of POLAR COUSINS: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures.
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The United States shoots down China's weather, no, make that surveillance balloon and China expresses its displeasure. United States Air Force General Mike Minihan in an internal communication warned last week the U.S. and China "will fight in 2025."

What to make now of the 'balloon incident'?

As well: Our guest Dr. Christian Leuprecht wrote a 2018 op ed titled "China's silent invasion of Western universities" and pointed to three Canadian universities, Waterloo, Toronto and McGill as being particularly a focus of China and the People's Liberation Army.

This past week federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne criticized Canadian universities for collaboration with China's military scientists and declared new national sercurity guidelines were on the way. Globe and Mail reports 50 Canadian universities have conducted extensive research with China's military since 2005.

Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Author of POLAR COUSINS: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures.

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