In this episode, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies Peter Garretson interviews Dean Cheng, a Senior Research Fellow with the Heritage Foundation on Chinese political and security affairs. They discuss modern China, whether it is a peer or near-peer, whether it is totalitarian or a dictatorship, what are its national interests, and how the regime thinks about space. They examine China's global and space ambitions, the reasons for its behavior and adversarial stand, its Lunar, Mars, Space station and anti-satellite and orbital hypersonic program and its capabilities, its military reorganization, whether it can innovate and what policymakers and the Space Force must do in response. Dean Cheng: https://www.heritage.org/staff/dean-cheng https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-cheng-b340221 Cyber Dragon: Inside China's Information Warfare and Cyber Operations https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440835640/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_JWEQ8803R313FX73EJ1X Lawfare https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/winning-without-fighting-chinese-legal-warfare