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Silicon Valley Turns Anti-China. Why Steven Pinker Doesn't Get the Causes of War. Pompeo Won't Survive Impeachment. Making Enemies of Friends. | Ep. 13
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Silicon Valley might be turning against China. Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and needs to take a security studies course. There are no more US officials with gravitas. Trump's 5-dimensional chess is going to end with a Kurdish-Iranian alliance. Career advice for an aspiring China hand. And will Van Jackson ever move back to Washington?
Van's Predictions:
Will Pompeo survive until 2020? No
Will China sacrifice Carrie Lam by 2020? Yes
Will Giuliani be arrested by the end of 2019? No
Will China and the US sign a grand bargain deal by the end of 2020? No
Will US troops withdraw from Syria by 2020? No
Shelly Banjo's Bloomberg tweet thread: https://twitter.com/sbanjo/status/1184070619693907968
Michael Weiss tweet thread: https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1184139398507585536?s=20
Tanisha Fazal and Paul Poast Foreign Affairs article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-10-15/war-not-over
Music: "Van is Meta" by Tre' Hester