PREVIEW: PRC: JAPANIFICATION Conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of SCALA.com regarding the sinking Chinese economy and its vast credit unworthiness in the trillions, potentially reaching double-digit trillions. More details tonight.

#NewWorldReport: Ecuador asks for US returning. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#NewWorldReport: Venezuela supremacy. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#NewWorldReport: Mexico investor doubts.Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#NewWorldReport: Cuba agitprop..Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

#MARS: Gravity mapping. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

#SPACEX: Private spacewalkers nominal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

#FRANCE: China's commodity demand decline. Simon Constable, Occitanie.

#Bucharest: Romania on the front line. Antonia Colibasanu, @GPFutures

#PRC: Made in China Disguised. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, :@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

#PRC: RUSSIA: Hypersonic Defense. Brandon Weichert, author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

#PRC: "Balance Sheet Recession" Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.scmp.com/economy/policy/article/3278845/chinas-retirement-delay-offers-respite-

PRC: Cargo Crane spying. Blaine Holt, retired Air Force general who served as deputy military representative to NATO, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

#IPOTUS: The partisan alliance of the media and the academy & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

#INDIA: "The Consuming Class" and limitless growth. Sadanand Dhume, AEI, WSJ.

#Ukraine: PRC: Provocations East and West. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

#Ukraine: #ISRAEL: More battery explosions in Lebanon. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

PREVIEW: ROMANIA: MIGRATION: EU: Conversation with colleague Antonia Colibasanu, @GPFutures, in Bucharest, regarding the migrant crisis in the EU and the German decision to sidestep Schengen Area rules, and what this means for Romania. More details to fo

PREVIEW: UKRAINE: STORM SHADOW: Conversation with Jeff McCausland, CBS News, regarding the decision to release Storm Shadow missiles to launch on Russia -- and the limited supply in NATO. More details to follow.

PREVIEW: PRC: CARGO CRANES Conversation with colleague Blaine Holt, USAF (ret.), regarding the Congressional report that the dominant cargo cranes at U.S. and allied ports are Shanghai-built with surveillance technology embedded for spying and worse. More