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Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)

Uncertain Things

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What Are the Trade-Offs Between US and China?

In the Cold War, there were some trade-offs. What would be trade-offs between US and China? I'll go first since I'm more committed to the Cold War analogy than Martin is. There's a very ideological dimension to this, but it's much more apparent if you're in China or for that matter in Russia where they constantly go on about the difference between their systems and our decadence and corrupt democracy. So I think we should underestimate how ideological it looks, at least to the other side.

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