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Russia is fighting a war in Ukraine. Iran is targeting American forces in the Middle East. North Korea continues building up its military. These may seem like separate threats, but according to Gordon Chang, there's one country behind it all — China.
Gordon Chang returns to The Resilient Show for Part 2 of his conversation with Chad, digging into Beijing's growing relationships with America's adversaries and why he believes we're underestimating just how closely they're working together.
KEY TOPICS:
What Xi Jinping really wanted from his meeting with President Trump

China's role in Iranian attacks that killed American troops

China's financial support for Iran and international money laundering

Why Trump's actions in Venezuela and Iran threaten China's oil supply

How China benefited from America's withdrawal from Afghanistan

China's growing military cooperation with Russia, Iran, and North Korea

Why Greenland and the Arctic are becoming strategically important

Chinese surveillance operations in Cuba targeting U.S. military activity

How a conflict over Taiwan could escalate into a global war

China's potential access to critical American infrastructure and the electrical grid

Why Chang believes Xi Jinping could take increasingly dangerous risks

What Americans can do to prepare for potential disruptions and conflict

The nightmare scenario has long been the same: China makes a move on Taiwan, the U.S. gets pulled into a war in the Pacific, and the world watches two superpowers collide thousands of miles from American soil.

Gordon Chang thinks that may be the wrong way to look at it.

In this interview, he argues that if war comes, China could try to hit the United States first — inside the country using vulnerabilities America already has. And Chang thinks this could happen soon with Xi Jinping's “window of opportunity” fast closing.

In Part 1 of a two-parter, Chad sits down with Chang to unpack what China;s master plan, what could trigger a first attack, and what a potential U.S.-China war may look like.

Key Topics:
- Why Gordon Chang says the CCP views America as its enemy
- Why a U.S.-China war could begin on American soil
- China’s alleged infrastructure and operatives inside the U.S.
- Xi Jinping’s shrinking window to make a move
- Taiwan, Japan, and the flashpoints that could trigger a wider war
- Whether China’s military can actually win a major conflict
- Xi Jinping’s purge of China’s military leadership
- China’s economic decline and population crisis
- The CCP’s persecution of Christians
- COVID and the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- China’s role in the fentanyl crisis

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Get Gordon's book: https://www.amazon.com/Plan-Red-Chinas-Destroy-America/dp/1630062804/
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Before Brazilian jiu-jitsu became a global sport, Vinicius “Draculino” Magalhães was a kid surfing alongside the Gracies in Brazil. The people he grew up around would help shape martial arts history — and he would become part of that story himself. He went from watching his idols to facing them in competitions.
In this episode of The Resilient Show, Chad sits down with his former instructor to revisit a lifetime on the mats. Chad knows firsthand what it’s like to learn from Draculino, and that shared history makes this conversation personal. Between the laughs and old stories, you get to know a fierce competitor who now finds some of his greatest pride in what his students accomplish outside the gym.
KEY TOPICS:
Growing up alongside the Gracies and finding jiu-jitsu through surfing

The early Brazilian competition scene

Facing his idols and competing against the best

The devastating injury that nearly cost him his leg

Chad’s years training under Draculino

The danger of treating black belts like life gurus

How modern jiu-jitsu has changed (and sometimes not for the better)

Faith, friendship, and finding purpose through teaching

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The U.S. grid gets taken down by an enemy and the entire country goes dark. No phones. No ATMs. No gas pumps. No grocery deliveries. No running water. What now?That question drives Part 2 of our conversation with Jonathan Hollerman. Part 1 exposed how easily the grid could be attacked. Now Jon walks Chad through what he would actually do to survive it.
Over the next hour and a half, Jon builds a survival plan from the ground up. First, he explains what you need to do now while the lights are still on. Then he walks through the decisions that could keep your family alive once the grid collapses and America descends into a Mad Max scenario — from escaping the city to storing food to choosing weapons, and everything in between.

KEY TOPICS:
What Jonathan witnessed during a nationwide grid-down war game

Why the military and FEMA lack a plan for a nationwide outage

How true is the claim that 90% of Americans could die within one year in a grid-down scenario?

Why military bases depend on the civilian electrical grid

America’s high-voltage transformers and years-long replacement times

Physical attacks, cyberattacks, solar storms, and nuclear EMPs

How few critical targets could trigger a nationwide blackout

Concerns surrounding Chinese-built transformers inside the U.S. grid

The policy failures that have left America’s infrastructure exposed

What it would take to begin hardening the national grid

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Most Americans assume the electrical grid is protected — and that if it ever failed, the military or federal government would step in. Jonathan Hollerman once wrongly assumed the same thing.
That changed after he participated in a nationwide grid-down war game at Maxwell Air Force Base alongside federal agencies, military branches and utility experts. Jonathan walked away convinced that the safety net Americans expect simply isn’t there. And worse, any attack on the grid would be absolutely catastrophic to the American people.
In part one of this two-part conversation, Jonathan joins Chad to explain why America’s power grid may be the country’s greatest weakness, how quickly a nationwide failure could become catastrophic, and why decades of warnings have produced so little action.
KEY TOPICS:
What Jonathan witnessed during a nationwide grid-down war game

Why the military and FEMA lack a plan for a nationwide outage

How true is the claim that 90% of Americans could die within one year in a grid-down scenario?

Why military bases depend on the civilian electrical grid

America’s high-voltage transformers and years-long replacement times

Physical attacks, cyberattacks, solar storms, and nuclear EMPs

How few critical targets could trigger a nationwide blackout

Concerns surrounding Chinese-built transformers inside the U.S. grid

The policy failures that have left America’s infrastructure exposed

What it would take to begin hardening the national grid
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