Bruce Jones, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, joins the show to discuss seapower.
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- 00:51 - Introduction
- 01:17 - The importance of seapower today
- 06:45 - Innovation of container shipping and how that changed the global economy
- 12:50 - China re-enters the seas
- 16:54 - China’s security challenges at sea
- 22:44 - Shallow seas, narrow passages, and massive ships
- 24:06 - China’s strategic interest in Taiwan
- 26:10 - China’s alienation of potential allies
- 29:08 - American strategic view of the Pacific Ocean
- 34:41 - Relations between the United States and India, specifically in terms of taking on China
- 39:12 - Seapower theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan
- 44:55 - Comparing America’s quest for power at sea during the 20th century and China’s return to the sea today
- 48:48 - The role of oceanography in nation-state power competition