https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1gsIdlJFs

#HooverInstitution
#UncommonKnowlege

#PeterRobinson poses five questions to #StephenKotkin: what #XiJinping, the president of #China believes; what Vladimir #Putin believes; whether nuclear weapons are a deterrent in the 21st century; the chances of another #American renewal; and Kotkin’s rational basis for loving the #UnitedStates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFxhqT7d4Y

#StephenKotkin: #Taiwan, geopolitical tension and #China’s inevitable rise in indices - 30 April 2021

"China's goal is to bend countries to its will. To make the world safe for that authoritarian regime."

31 mins

#GrandStrategy #asiaPacific

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPukUTvQh0Y

#StephenKotkin on #China

"..with the 2nd biggest economy in the world, is an incredible achievement, very very impressive -

& that's not going away & that is something we will have to confront here in the U.S. whether or not the #Communist regime survives this dilemma that it has:

of not being able to open up politically without destroying itself and worrying how much it can open up economically also without undermining itself"