GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Hong Kong at the show trial of Jimmy Lai... 1930 Hong Kong CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for speaking of freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 915-930 2/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for advancing freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 930-945 #FRANCE: The Roman Empire city of Toulouse welcomes...

2/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures. 2006

1/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures. 2007 Abkhazia 

2/2: #HOTEL MARS :The end of SLS? Eric Berger Ars Technica. David Livingston SpaceShow.com 1940Robert  Goddard, Roswell, TX

1/2: #HOTEL MARS :The end of SLS? Eric Berger Arstechnica. David Livingston SpaceShow.com 1955

2/2: #PRC:  Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. 1943 Peking

1/2: #PRC:  Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. 1890 Peking

#RUSSIA: Inflation level accelerating. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution 1863 Germany

#DOGE:  Poor idea, won't work -- and why.  Tom Modly, American Thinker. 1940

#OPCW: Russia accused of CD gas drone dropped on Ukraine trenches. Andrea Stricker, FDD 1906 Dead London after the Martian attack

#PLA: significance of China's J-35A, J-20, J-10. General Blaine Holt , USAF (retired). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1960

#TAIWAN: Small arms to millions. Brandon Weichert, National Interest. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1925

#NUKES: What is the nuclear weapon threshold? Peter Huessy, Deterrence Studies. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1906 War of the Worlds

#SPACEX: Starship No 6 test and the floating plastic banana. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1955

#FRANCE: The Roman Empire City of Toulouse welcomes farmers. The Roman Empire City of Londinium provokes farmers. . Simon Constable, Occitanie 1911 Agrippina MInor

2/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for advancing freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1930s

1/2: #HONG KONG: Jimmy Lai on trial for speaking of freedom. Mark Simon, Apple Daily (closed). @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 1930 HK

PREVIEW: PRC: Colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover acknowledges that much must be done by the new administration to explain to the American people the threat of the predatory PRC. More tonight. 1949 Moscow

PREVIEW: DOGE: Colleague Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy, explains that it is difficult to impossible to fire anyone in the U.S. government. More later. 1905 Federal Reserve Board

PREVIEW: NASA: DOGE: SLS: Colleague Eric Berger of Ars Technica explains how an early challenge for Elon Musk as inventor of DOGE is to end the NASA "jobs program" of SLS. More tonight. 1951

PREVIEW: SPACEX: Space analyst Bob Zimmerman explains significance of the tethered plastic banana aboard Starship's sixth test flight cargo bay. More later. 1958

PREVIEW: PLA: STEALTH: Colleage USAF General Blaine Holt (ret) explains the PLA J-20 and J-10 warplanes that serve as the weight of PRC air defense.  More tonight on the new shown J-35. 1951 F-86

PREVIEW: RUSSIA/NATO: Nuclear deterrence expert Peter Huessy examines implications of Moscow's shift toward lower nuclear weapons threshold doctrine. More tonight. 1957 Operation Plumbob test.

GOOD EVEING: The show begins in the market, asking after the Treasury and the "Trump Trade." 1907 NYSE and the panic. CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15: MARKETS: Treasury Missions and Trump Administration -Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business 9:15-9:30: MARKETS: Kennedy vs Big Pharma -Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business 9:30-9:45: ISRAEL (1/2): Hezbollah, Tehran and Ceasefire Possibilities -Jonathan Schanzer, FDD 9:45-10:00: ISRAEL (2/2):...