World on the Brink

World on the Brink: The United States, China, and the Race for the 21st Century
PACS Distinguished Lecture
Dmitri Alperovitch, a leading national security expert, will explain why he believes that China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years-and the dire stakes for the world if he is not deterred. Alperovitch makes the case that we are already in the midst of a second Cold War with Taiwan as the perilous strategic flashpoint of this new conflict. The conflict risks triggering a devastating war between major nuclear powers in a similar role that West Berlin nearly played during the first Cold War.
Laying out a comprehensive strategy to deter war and maintain the United States' status as the world's leading superpower in the face of rising China, Alperovitch breaks down the significant weaknesses that can prevent China from surpassing the U.S. and the key policies that will enable America to maintain primacy even as China ramps up its efforts. As Alperovitch explains, we must play to our strengths and address our weaknesses, using our leverage as the strongest nation on the planet to tactfully navigate the next Cold War.
About the Speaker
Dmitri Alperovitch is an internationally recognized thought leader on geopolitics and national security. He is co-founder and executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think-tank focused on policy solutions in national security, trade and industrial security, and ecological and economic security. He is also the co-founder of the leading cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc.
Alperovitch serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the Department of Homeland Security and as a founding board member of the U.S. government's Cyber Safety Review Board. He has previously served as a special advisor to the Department of Defense. He is the host of Silverado's "Geopolitics Decanted" podcast and author of an upcoming book, World On the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century.
Event Host
Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

[@annleland6422]

Thank you very much for the great talk. I will buy the book for more details。

[@jamesu6241]

The inconvenient truth is, in the 1970’s the US actively courted and then won over China to its side, as a counter weight against the Soviet Union during the so-called Cold War 1.
As a price, US pledged “there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China” in the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué.
US swiftly abandoned Taiwan (Republic of China) by switching recognition to the communist China (People Republic of China).
After winning the “Cold War 1”, during the next two decades US multinationals reaped enormous benefits by using China as a low-cost production base, like what they had done with smaller East Asian countries previously, and now trying to do the same with Vietnam (yes, also run by communists) and India (governed by the increasingly authoritarian Modi).
Cheap imports from China, at the expense of Chinese laborers’ health and environmental degradation gave rise to the Great Moderation, a period of low inflation and prosperity in the US that ran from Clinton years until the self-inflicted Sub-Prime Crisis and Great Recession in 2007-09.
As it becomes prosperous, China is no longer content playing the US sweatshop. Faced with an increasingly assertive China, which could not be pushed around like the little brother Japan did in the 1980s, the US tune has changed once again.
Every US action over the past century smack of self-interest, selfishness and hypocrisy!

[@Goodmaolee]

Is this a scholar or a politician? It's all cliches

[@profriday]

Chinese bot or Chinese troll ?

[@uers-00seven]

It seems that America is full of such low-level scholars.

[@uers-00seven]

Full of mistakes and lies.