#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

PREVIEW: INDIA: PROSPERITY Conversation with colleague Sadanand Dhume (AEI, WSJ) regarding why Indian politicians do not point to China as an example of prosperity in order to grow the economy for all and to fortify the 8% that are the rising consuming c