It sounds like an X Files episode: An American working with classified military technology is found dead in his apartment in a foreign country. Even though the evidence points to murder, the governments of China, Singapore, and the United States all agree it was a suicide.

In Episode 8 of Forward Observers, Rebecca introduces the Ricochet audience to Christina Villegas, co-author of Hard Drive: A Family’s Fight Against Three Countries. The book chronicles the “grueling battle to reveal the truth against powerful forces that have sought to conceal, destroy, or discredit evidence indicating homicide” in the death of Dr. Shane Todd.

Does this story go all the way up to America’s Ambassador to China?

Plus, the Free Beacon’s Dan Wiser takes us inside the climate debate on Capitol Hill.

There’s a lot of China in this week’s program. Whether or not they’re the good guys or the bad guys is definitely up for debate.

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