On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guest are Patrick Cronin, PhD, the chair for Asia-Pacific Security at the Hudson Institute, and Jim Holmes, PhD, the JC Wylie chair of maritime strategy US Naval War College, discuss Chinese Premier Xi Jinping’s crackdown on internal security leaders and shift to a more centralized economy, Beijing’s heightened military operations as it seeks to assert territorial claims and increase pressure on Taiwan, helped Taipei protect itself, and determining what US actions could trigger China to aggression with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.