The Realignment

279 | Sprinting Towards Conflict with a Peaking China - Michael Beckley on the Dangers of the Next Decade

Aug 25, 2022

55:40

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The State of Tiwanese Public Opinion

01:43

China War Over Taiwan

01:20

Global Depression Is All But Guaranteed

01:20

China's Exceptional Rise

02:01

Introduction

2min

What Is the Time Line for a War Between the United States and China?

3min

What's a Sharp Conflict?

2min

The State of Tiwanese Public Opinion

3min

What Are the Tirenese Doing Now, From a Defence and Internal Perspective?

2min

How Difficult Would It Be to Operate an Invasion of Tian?

2min

Is It a Viable Alternative to Blockade?

2min

Is There a War in the 20th Century?

4min

China War Over Tiwan Could Turn Into a Protracted War

2min

10.

The Economic Cost of a Conflict

2min

11.

Domestic Political Pressure

3min

12.

What Do You Think the Chinese Have Taken From Pearl Harbor?

2min

13.

Is the United States Ready for a Protracted Conflict?

2min

14.

What Does a Proper Deterrence Policy Look Like?

3min

15.

Tiwan China Relations - The History of Us

3min

16.

The Polose Trip - Is This a Price or Going to Pay?

3min

17.

The US Versus China in the 20th Senture?

4min

18.

The Peking Power Framework

2min

19.

America's Decline Narratives

3min

20.

Is China Really a Peking Power?

5min

21.

The Danger Zone, the Coming Conflict With China

2min

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Michael Beckley, Tufts University professor and co-author (with Hal Brands) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that China's power relative to the United States will peak in the 2020s, how that makes a catastrophic conflict more, rather than less, likely, and how the United States and its allies should navigate combustible challenges such as defending Taiwan.

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