Patrick Cronin appears on the Defense and Aerospace Podcast to discus political chaos in Washington and its impact on international relations, Chinese and Russian influence operations (minute 17), and Beijing鈥檚 sensitivity to soft power鈥攆rom soccer star Lionel Messi鈥檚 snub during a football match in Hong Kong to Taylor Swift鈥檚 immense popularity (minute 37).
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The P4 laboratory, on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)