CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto talks with Recode's
Kara Swisher about his new book,
The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's
Secret Operations to Defeat America.
In this episode: Sciutto’s background and the 30th anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square Protests; being a foreign correspondent; working for the
Chinese ambassador and returning to journalism; being a journalist at CNN in
the Trump era; Americans’ post-Cold War delusions about Russia; why failures
to recognize Russia and China as threats have been bipartisan; how both
countries have made themselves adversaries of the US; what Russia has done
beyond election hacking, including "kamikaze satellites"; China’s theft of
state secrets; should we be making phones in China?; why AI is now a
battlefield; what do Russia and China actually want, and what does defeat look
like?; America's deeply partisan politics; the policy steps to end the shadow
war; and the impact of Trump's trade war with China.
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CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto talks with Recode's
Kara Swisher about his new book,
The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's
Secret Operations to Defeat America.
In this episode: Sciutto’s background and the 30th anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square Protests; being a foreign correspondent; working for the
Chinese ambassador and returning to journalism; being a journalist at CNN in
the Trump era; Americans’ post-Cold War delusions about Russia; why failures
to recognize Russia and China as threats have been bipartisan; how both
countries have made themselves adversaries of the US; what Russia has done
beyond election hacking, including "kamikaze satellites"; China’s theft of
state secrets; should we be making phones in China?; why AI is now a
battlefield; what do Russia and China actually want, and what does defeat look
like?; America's deeply partisan politics; the policy steps to end the shadow
war; and the impact of Trump's trade war with China.
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