The 2025 USCC Annual Report: A Conversation with Randy Schriver and Mike Kuiken

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Randy Schriver and Mike Kuiken discuss key findings from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress.

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Randy Schriver and Mike Kuiken join us to discuss key findings from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress, which they helped draft. They examine how Beijing is increasingly using the PLA for political signaling, how China’s treatment of space as a warfighting domain marks a notable shift, and how China’s dominance across key supply chain choke points creates structural vulnerabilities for the U.S. and global markets. The conversation also covers several other recommendations from the report, including proposals related to Taiwan’s role in supporting U.S. posture initiatives and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Randy Schriver is the Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security (IIPS) and a partner at Pacific Solutions LLC. Prior to this, he served for two years as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs during the first Trump Administration. Mike Kuiken is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and spent over two decades in the Senate. Both are commission members of the U.S.-China Economic and Security…

People in this episode

Guests: Randy Schriver, Mike Kuiken

Topics covered

• U.S.-China relations
• economic security
• military strategy
• supply chain vulnerabilities
• Taiwan
• political signaling

Keywords

• U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
• 2025 Annual Report
• PLA
• political signaling
• space warfighting
• supply chain choke points
• Taiwan
• Indo-Pacific

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Institute for Indo-Pacific Security, Pacific Solutions LLC, Stanford University's Hoover Institution

Places: Taiwan, Indo-Pacific

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