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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
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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Overtime titles:
1:05 Does China have a zero-sum worldview?
9:02 The complex causes of Putin’s invasion
20:21 Should we fear Chinese “victory”?
30:29 Anarchy in cyberspace
