Hidden Forces

How to Prepare for the Next Taiwan Strait Crisis | Dmitri Alperovitch, Elbridge Colby, & Jamil N. Jaffer

Aug 5, 2022

01:22:15

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Dmitri Alperovitch

Elbridge Colby

Jamil N. Jaffer

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We Need To Stop China From Producing Chips

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The Taiwanese Military Is Not Serious About Its Defense

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Economic Sanctions Are Not Determinative

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Introduction

5min

Do You Think We're Going to Pick a Fight With China?

3min

The Chinese Invasion of the Island

2min

Is It a Good Idea to Help Tiwan Defend Itself Sufficientlyo to Beat Off a Chinese Attack?

5min

What's the Sentiment in Japan?

2min

The Uncertainty of M an Politics

2min

The Real and Perceived Political Wrangling in American Politics on China?

3min

Is China a Provocative Action?

3min

Does It Accelerate the Pivot to Asia?

2min

10.

Are We Ready?

2min

11.

I Think a Blockade Is a Bad Idea for China

2min

12.

Are We Really Doing With Nesar?

2min

13.

We Need High Level Military to Military Relationships With Tiwan

2min

14.

We Shouldn't Be Sitting on Our Haunches

2min

15.

Bridges, What Do You Think the Correct Policy Should Be?

2min

16.

I Think the Tiwanese Are Not Insisting That Their Government's Bent.

2min

17.

Is There a Threat to the Kinman Island?

2min

18.

Are We Going to Be Able to Rapidly Reconstitute Our Capabilities at Long Range?

2min

19.

China's Invasion of Taiwan

2min

20.

Economic Warfare - I've Got It.

2min

21.

Why Is Tian Increasingly Becoming a Focus of the Media?

3min

22.

The American People Are Really Awakening to the Threat That China Opposes

2min

23.

The Importance of Semi Conductors in the United States

2min

24.

China's Investment in Semi Conductors Is Not Going to Increase Our Market Share

4min

25.

The Cold War

2min

26.

China Is Not a Friend of the United States

2min

27.

Do You Think We're Exaggerating This Threat?

2min

28.

What Do You Think About China's Blockade?

2min

29.

I Think the Polosi Trip Presents an Opportunity for Them to Sort of Ease Into It

2min

30.

What Are Your Thoughts About the Siber Attacks?

2min

31.

The Chinese Are Going to Play the Long Game, Right?

2min

32.

Amphibious Invasions Are the Hardest Military Operation

2min

33.

The Chinese Military Is Not Serious About Its Defense

2min

34.

The State Department's First Ambassador for Cyber Security and Digital Policy

3min

35.

Hidden Forces Podcast - Dmitri Al Perovitch

2min

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Hidden Forces Podcast - Tre's Interview

2min

In Episode 264 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas publishes the contents of a call that he hosted on Twitter Spaces this past Tuesday evening only hours after Nancy Pelosi, the US Speaker of the House of Representatives arrived in Taiwan.

The subject of the call concerns both the short and long-term consequences of Pelosi’s trip and whether or not the US is ready to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese naval blockade or invasion of the island by the People’s Liberation Army. Speakers Dmitri Alperovitch, Elbridge Colby, and Jamil N. Jaffer discuss how the US can prepare for this eventuality, the urgency of the task at hand, and the possibility and consequences of the US losing a war with China over Taiwan in the next few years.

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Episode Recorded on 08/02/2022

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