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Welcome to the Bureau podcast. As our followers have noticed, we're increasingly bringing in great US experts and covering US stories more and more. There's a big reason for that. And today I'm excited to introduce Chris Myers. We plan to have featuring interviews with him, and here's why.
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Chris is a longtime China expert and former US government diplomatic and economic issues officer. Recently, in this stage of his career, he's devoted time to studying and researching the kind of topics that I've been doing for years as a journalist, but he's coming from a different angle.
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So in a nutshell, Chris brings deep expertise on something that I've been looking at. That's China's strategic corruption, political warfare networks. And he explains how military intelligence and influence networks embedded deeply with organized crime are a central feature of the global strategy employed by the families that really are running communist China.

The Ye-Xi Clique: Probing the Kingmaker Clan and CCP-Triad Network Behind Xi's Rise in Fujian

This is the first in a series of podcast discussions with Christopher Meyer, a former U.S. official and China expert. Meyer now investigates the same Communist Party influence networks covered by The Bureau and explored in my first book, Wilful Blindness.

Currently, Meyer serves as the head of the U.S. Micronesia Council and is the founder of WideFountain, a platform for in-depth geopolitical analysis.

A passionate China observer since age 16, Meyer studied East Asian Studies at George Washington University, where he wrote a thesis on the geopolitical dimensions of China’s Special Economic Zones.

His career includes:

  • Five years in sales and marketing with a U.S. Fortune 500 company.

  • Service in the U.S. diplomatic corps as an Asia expert at the Development Finance Corporation (DFC).

  • Consulting on U.S. government projects, particularly in Micronesia.

  • Founding an edtech company, patenting innovative products, and building supply chains in Taiwan and China.

In 2018, Meyer began focused research into Chinese strategic corruption and political warfare, deepening his expertise in CCP influence operations.

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Good job you two! I feel North America needs to desperately get together to fight these gangs and Triad's that are trying to destroy our great countries!

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Always exceptional. Thank you, both of you.

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Strong work you two!

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Wow! Fantastic interview! I can hardly wait for the next one.

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