ChinaTalk: The CIA's China Capabilities

Dennis Wilder returns to ChinaTalk — this time with some broader thoughts on how the US intelligence community can rise to the occasion vis-à-vis China. In particular, we discuss:

The importance of government hiring those with experience living in China;

• Contributions that the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS) has made to China intelligence, and why it should be reinstated;
• A serious request to make an ChatGPT as good as Alice Miller is at analyzing CCP documents;
• Why the State Department has established China House and the CIA has established the China Mission Center;
• What we can learn from Richard Danzig’s Driving in the Dark;
• How to maintain robust intelligence capabilities in the long-run;
• Raymond P. Ludden and the “Dixie Mission” — and why the US needs more Luddens today.

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Outro music: I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire - The Ink Spots

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