The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), a Washington-based think tank, holds a webinar at 1 p.m. ET on May 8 titled “Trump’s Fraught Summit with Xi: Can ‘What Can Go Wrong’ Be Prevented?” to discuss U.S.–China tensions ahead of a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Moderator: Frank Gaffney, president, Institute for the American Future; vice chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; member, Victory Coalition; and host of “Securing America”
Capt. James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former chief of intelligence and information operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; senior fellow, Geneva Center for Security Policy; co-author, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure
Charles “Sam” Faddis, former CIA clandestine operative; U.S. Army veteran; author, Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA; editor, AndMagazine.Substack.com (Invited)
Lt. Col. Guermantes Lailari, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), veteran foreign area officer; senior non-resident fellow, Jewish Policy Center; former Ministry of Foreign Affairs Taiwan fellow; former visiting researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research
Col. Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), former foreign service officer; international businessman; senior fellow, Center for Security Policy; author, When China Attacks: A Warning to America
Brian T. Kennedy, chairman, Committee on the Present Danger China; president, American Strategy Group; former president, Claremont Institute; author, China’s War Inside America (Invited)
