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Can Liberals and Marxists Get Along? Where's the Left on China Decoupling? Australia's Dilemma, Singapore's Warning | Ep. 53
Episode 53
Can liberals and Marxists find common cause? The left often weighs in on China, but is silent on the biggest strategic question of our time: Should …
5 years, 9 months ago
Left Technocracy vs Kleptocracy, Black Lives Matter is Foreign Policy, China Hawks against Order, Stop Terrorizing Antifa | Ep. 52
Episode 52
Joe Biden needs progressive technocracy to fight the transnational corruption and oligarchy that threatens democracies everywhere. The demands of th…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Anti-China Think Tank, Corrupt Cocktail Parties, India v. China, Marines v. Pentagon, North Korea v. Everyone | Ep. 51
Episode 51
How much does it cost to buy a Washington Post columnist? One fancy dinner at the State Department. The think tank behind Trump's anti-China campaig…
5 years, 9 months ago
China's Useful Idiot, Hawks Failing Up, Arms-Racing to Security, NZ Conspiracy Theory, GOP against International Order, Getting Taiwan Wrong | Ep. 50
Episode 50
HR McMaster proves that in Washington, hawks only fail up. Are Republicans against international order? Chinese Netizens wants Trump to win the ele…
5 years, 9 months ago
Kissinger's Legacy, Anti-War Biden, Cancel Space Force, Wrong on Iran, Incompetence All the Way Down | Ep. 49
Episode 49
Biden's best chance of winning might be embracing the anti-war movement. Democracies for Taiwan. Is there anything Australia can do to save the Uni…
5 years, 9 months ago
Creative Defense Hawks, Strategic Nihilism, Doing Korean Peace Right, and Speaking China's Language | Ep. 48
Episode 48
American foreign policy is a reality TV show. Through the China looking glass with HR McMaster. Also this episode:Why is Korean peace a dirty phras…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Blob's Debate Dilemma, Orwell on Nuclear Tyranny, On Becoming a North Korea Watcher, GOP War on China, Big Data BS | Ep. 47
Episode 47
The "Blob" national security establishment is necessary, often wrong, and loses any argument where it concedes that it's a Blob. Are nuclear weapons…
5 years, 10 months ago
Korea Doves and Japan Hawks, Grand Strategy Isn't Over, the Disappearing Dictator, We're All BBC Dad Now | Ep. 46
Episode 46
Grand strategy is more necessary--and harder to do--than ever. Alliance management with Japan and South Korea is becoming impossible when one is a h…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Chris Murphy Doctrine, Gen X Hawks and Gen Z Doves, the Neoliberal Split on China, Cyberpunk, Socialists for Biden | Ep. 45
Episode 45
Why Senator Chris Murphy might end up being the Henry Kissinger of the Left. Are Millennials more hawkish on China than Boomers and Gen X? Chicago …
5 years, 10 months ago
Debating Black Swans, the War Metaphor, the Irony of Competing with China, North Korea Doesn't Want Help | Ep. 44
Episode 44
Does the novel Coronavirus pandemic count as a Black Swan? Van Jackson goes deep on why it was and why it matters. Is strategic competition within in…
5 years, 11 months ago