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Podcast: Defense & Aerospace Report
Episode: Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Washington Roundtable Oct 31, ’25]
Description: On this week’s Defense & Aerospace Report Washington Roundtable, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute think tank, Michael Herson of American Defense International, former Pentagon Europe chief Jim Townsend of the Center for a New American Security, and Pentagon comptroller Dr. Dov Zakheim of the Center for Strategic and International Studies join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the US government shutdown and when it might end; analysis of President Trump’s Asia trip including his meetings with China’s Xi Jinping, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung; Trump’s pledge to eq...