The Vandenberg Coalition partnered with the China Economic & Strategy Initiative (CESI) in the public launch of their remarkable new report, “Defeating the CCP: A Running Start.” In this conversation CESI Commissioners Randy Schriver, Dan Blumenthal, Nazak Nikakhtar, and Peter Berkowitz, moderated by Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) Michael Sobolik, discuss their new report and why now is the time the president must lead America in the development and execution of an economic strategy to address the growing threat from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They identify specific steps the new president should take to secure the American economy, degrade the CCP’s economic leverage, and build new global economic power centers to once again reassert U.S. leadership on the world stage. Their combined decades of experience serving at the nexus of U.S. competition with China at the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, and Commerce provide a unique conversation with Washington’s leading experts on competition with the CCP.