Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

Got a great episode today speaking with Michael Beckley,

co-author with How Brands of Danger Zone,

the coming conflict with China.

I should note that I spoke with his co-author Howe,

back in February as part of our month-long series

on the War in Ukraine.

We spoke about his most recent book,

which focused on how we can take lessons

from the Cold War for today.

Do you wanna take a look at that?

That's back in February.

Danger Zone's a very interesting book.

It pushes back on the conventional wisdom

that America and China are in a superpower marathon

that could last century.

Instead, they ask a different question.

What if the sharpest phase of that competition

is more like a decade-long sprint?

Under their argument, we are in the middle

of that decade-long sprint,

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