The John Batchelor Show

PREVIEW: Colleague Evan Ellis of the US Army War College relates how Brazil benefited from tariffs during the first Trump administration unleashing tariffs on the PRC. More later. 1936 BRAZIL.

Good evening: The show begins in the EU, asking if NATO is on life support? 1897 BRUSSELS : CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR SECOND HOUR THIRD HOUR FOURTH HOUR

#FRANCE: LAWFARE AND MARINE LE PEN. SIMON CONSTABLE, OCCITANIE 1940

GOP: UNTROUBLED: JIM PFAFF CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS. 1910 AURORA NEVADA

#CIVITAS INSTITUTE: CONVERSATION ABOUT THINKING OUT LOUD IN TEXAS. RICHARD REINSCH, CIVITAS OUTLOOK, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 1891 AUSTIN, FIRST STREETCARS

#INDIA: 17TH CENTURY VIOLENCE. IN THE 21ST. SADANAND DHUME, WSJ 1925 BOMBAY

2/2: #SOMALIA: AL QAEDA AND ISIS WITH DRONES, CALEB WEISS, BILL ROGGIO, FDD.

1/2: #SOMALIA: AL QAEDA AND ISIS WITH DRONES, CALEB WEISS, BILL ROGGIO, FDD 2022 PUNTLAND

EU: TALK TALK RE UKRAINE: JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN. 1860 BECHTESGADEN

BERLIN: MERZ DISAPPOINTING. JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN. 1850 BECHTESGADEN

USN: 2027 Rebecca Grant, vice president of the Lexington Institute, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1936 RANGER, LEXINGTON, SARATOGA https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/f-47s-mission-take-china-you-have-have-it https://www.foxnews.com/world/germany-says-us-talks-russia-ukraine-war-deadlocked-china-has-different-takehttps://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-military-says-it-is-conducting-exercises-around-taiwan-2025-03-31/

ROK: APRIL 4: David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-constitutional-court-rule-yoons-impeachment-april-4-2025-04-01/

Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research and author of new book, China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants, on this: https://www.newsweek.com/china-reacts-donald-trump-brics-threat-1993886. 1888 CONFUCIUS

TAIWAN; THREAT: James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL : https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-military-says-it-is-conducting-exercises-around-taiwan-2025-03-31/ 1887 CHING-YUEN1

2/2/: ERIC ADAMS "WITH PREJUDICE" FREE @ANDREWCMCCARTHY @NRO @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1888 FIVE POINTS

1/2/: ERIC ADAMS "'WITH PREJUDICE'" FREE @ANDREWCMCCARTHY @NRO @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1862 ZOUAVES OFF TO MARYLAND

#UKRAINE: CIVILIAN AND CLUMSY NATIONAL SECURITY? COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL 1935 BRUSSELS

#UKRAINE: IS NATO ON LIFE-SUPPORT? COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL 1914 BRUSSELS

PREVIEW: Colleague Judy Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment comments on the kind of support that EU members offer Ukraine. More later. 1871 PRUSSIANS AT PARIS

PREVIEW: Colleague Andrew Collier comments on the property bubble and collapse in PRC, and what is to be done? More later. 2860 QING DYNASTY