The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 17 AUGUST 2023

Air Date: 
August 17, 2023

 

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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Philippines: #Vietnam: Uniting in the South China Sea vs #PRC. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://maritime-executive.com/article/philippines-and-vietnam-plan-cooperation-agreement-on-s-china-sea

https://amgreatness.com/2023/08/15/prcs-aggression-in-south-china-sea-needs-to-be-defeated/

 

915-930
#Uyghurs: #PRC: Blood cotton. Nury Turkel, commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66337328

 
930-945

#PRC: Disinformationharassment in Ontario. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66456790

945-1000
##PRC: Selling American property to the CCP. Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://justthenews.com/videos/steve-yates-if-china-cant-control-lab-leak-why-should-they-be-allowed-own-american-property

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

##Iran: $6 billion and more for what in return? Dr. David Adesnik is a senior fellow and the director of research at FDD
 
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/15/u-s-to-provid. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1e-iran-access-to-16-billion-in-frozen-funds/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/15/the-disastrous-implications-of-the-6-billion-iran-hostage-deal/
 

1015-1030

#ISRAEL:  Memory of the pandemic years.. Israel Nitzan is the Acting Consul General of the State of Israel in New York. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
 
 
1030-1045

#Lebanon: Threat continues & What is to be done? David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
 
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/economic-and-security-conditions-lebanon
 

1045-1100

#Iran: Marines to the Strait of Hormuz  :Ari Cicurel is the Assistant Director of Foreign Policy at JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

 
 
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-us-wrap-up-2-week-joint-navy-drill-aimed-at-boosting-ties-shared-learning/
https://jinsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JINSA_AbuMusa-Island_v3-1.pdf

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Canada: CBS French radio and TV dominate; so does English radio. Conrad Black, National Post.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canada-needs-a-strong-and-unbiased-public-broadcaster

1115-1130

 #NewWorldReport: Argentina: Voters choose dissent. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ice-cream-prices-double-month-argentina-battles-inflation-2023-08-17/

1130-1145
#ScalaReport: The rapid and chaotic #PRC decline. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com. #Stratacache.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/china-evergrande-files-chapter-15-bankruptcy-us-court-filing-2023-08-17/

1145-1200

#FTC: Policing  most all mergers & acquisitions with guidelines and regulation. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center.

https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/08/23/corporate-mergers-are-under-attack-but-not-on-your-behalf

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#Belarus: Lukashenko floats a peace offer. George Friedman @GPFutures

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/belarus-reaches-out-to-poland-and-the-eu/

1215-1230

#PRC: Weakening quickly; the Philippines refuses to obey. George Friedman @GPFutures

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/benchmarking-china/

1230-1245

#Guatemala:Leading party likely fraudulent for Sunday's final vote for the presidency. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-does-putins-dirty-work-in-guatemala-russia-arrest-democracy-corrupt-populist-semilla-dda75c6b

1245-100 AM

#HotelMars: Roskosmos aims to return to the surface of the moon at the South Pole.  Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceweb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

https://russianspaceweb.com/luna-glob-flight.html#0816