Nonzero | The Case for (and against) Cold War II | Robert Wright & Dmitri Alperovitch @Nonzero | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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0:49 Dmitri’s new book, World on the Brink
9:02 Is America’s behavior more destabilizing than China’s?
16:58 China-Taiwan compared to Russia-Ukraine
27:36 Is the US making a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely?
41:07 Should the US try to maintain global hegemony?
54:42 The “autocracy versus democracy” framing

Discussed in Overtime:
Does China have a zero-sum worldview?
The complex causes of Putin’s invasion.
Should we fear Chinese "victory"?
Anarchy in cyberspace.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Dmitri Alperovitch (Crowdstrike, Silverado, World on the Brink). Recorded July 24, 2024.

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