Emerald Robinson

No explanation for why they were removed.

They were just disappeared.

And now that's not super unusual in China.

Right.

And she is doing a purge.

But it doesn't explain why their plasma, their leading plasma aerodynamics expert, Yan Hong, died suddenly.

At just 56 years old, a few days after the three scientists were removed from the Academy's website.

So what we believe we're looking at here, Drew, is actually an arms race, okay?

A tit-for-tat with the United States in what is really the critical asset, right?

We're not just talking about missiles.

We're talking about human minds, right?

and the people involved with developing the next generation in warfare.

And we believe that the timing of events, the fact that it started happening here in the United States last June, and then this March, you see the Chinese scientists starting to disappear or die, that this is a tit-for-tat arms race.

True.

Well, if you look at the timeline, you don't know for sure.

But the U.S.

scientists started disappearing in June of last year, June of 2025.

And they're all, well, seven of the nine that have disappeared thus far are tied to the Air Force Research Laboratory.

It didn't get a lot of attention until in February when retired Major General William Neal McCaslin disappeared.

He had a little bit of a higher profile.