#279 | Michael Beckley: Are We Sprinting Towards Conflict with China? - The Realignment Podcast
Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Michael Beckley, Tufts University professor and co-author (with Hal Brands) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that China's power relative to the United States will peak in the 2020s, how that makes a catastrophic conflict more, rather than less, likely, and how the United States and its allies should navigate combustible challenges such as defending Taiwan. 0:00 - Intro 0:24 - Coming conflict with China 7:12 - What are the Taiwanese doing? 14:57 - Where will conflict break out? 20:23 - The costs of a potential conflict 25:16 - How China vs. USA are preparing for war 38:35 - Global trends & narratives 47:29 - Why is China weaker than we think? 52:19 - Michael’s book
Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Michael Beckley, Tufts University professor and co-author (with Hal Brands) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that China's power relative to the United States will peak in the 2020s, how that makes a catastrophic conflict more, rather than less, likely, and how the United States and its allies should navigate combustible challenges such as defending Taiwan. 0:00 - Intro 0:24 - Coming conflict with China 7:12 - What are the Taiwanese doing? 14:57 - Where will conflict break out? 20:23 - The costs of a potential conflict 25:16 - How China vs. USA are preparing for war 38:35 - Global trends & narratives 47:29 - Why is China weaker than we think? 52:19 - Michael’s book