This episode includes new information from the Pentagon's latest annual report on China's military power on Chinese communist ideology and strategy. Based on Marxism-Leninism with Chinese characteristics, the current Chinese Communist Party strategy calls for a deliberate and determined effort to amass, improve, and harness the internal and external elements of national power with the goal of placing Communist China in the “leading position” what Beijing regards as the death struggle between communism and capitalism, led by the U.S. The counterproposal section further explores history not as a march toward the communist workers' paradise but as God's providential history of the restoration. The news portion examines how China may be preparing to exploit the West's attention on wars in Ukraine and Israel for a move against Taiwan. The interview section hears from China expert Bradley Thayer who discusses China's adoption of a non-Chinese ideology -- Marxism-Leninism.