Patrick Cronin appears on the Defense and Aerospace Podcast to discuss takeaways from the Chinese Communist Party’s Twentieth Party Congress, and the US Air Force’s proposal to cycle out two F-15C squadrons from their current station on Okinawa (clip begins at 20:43).

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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)