China v. Ukraine with Elbridge Colby; TikTok's Clock; Election Meddling Is Cool Now? | GoodFellows: Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster, and Bill Whalen | Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

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Elbridge Colby, former Defense Department assistant secretary and cofounder of the Marathon Initiative, which studies great-power competition, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson and H.R. McMaster to discuss his contention that rearming America’s military in anticipation of an eventual Chinese move on Taiwan takes priority over conflicts in Ukraine and Israel.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Bill Whalen, the host of Goodfellows. Thanks for listening to the audio version of the show,
0:04.3	but we wanted to let you know that Goodfellows is primarily a video production, and you're missing a lot of
0:08.7	extra features by only listening to our show. Give it a look by going to Hoover.org
0:13.4	forward slash Goodfellows to see what you're missing. Thanks. At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy
0:26.6	and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis
0:33.6	have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.
0:40.4	It's Tuesday, March 19, 2024, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast
0:45.8	examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.
0:49.8	I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today.
0:53.7	Joined by two of our three Goodfellows, John Cocker, will not be with us today, but we are
0:57.4	graced by the presence of the historian Neil Ferguson and former presidential national security
1:02.3	advisor and fellow historian, HR McMaster, both Neil and HR are Hoover Institution's Senior Fellows.
1:08.1	Gentlemen, two blocks we're going to get into today. In the second block, we're going to talk about TikTok. Congress's move trying to force the Chinese company bite dance
1:15.2	to sell it, share in TikTok, and the question of that's good legislation. And we're going to tie that
1:19.7	and do also a conversation about Chuck Schumer and the Senate Majority Leader's recent comments
1:23.8	on Israeli domestic politics. Did he cross the line? But first, we're going to have a conversation about foreign policy priorities for the United States.
1:30.5	And joining us for that is Elbridge Colby.
1:33.4	I think he has debut on Goodfellows.
1:35.0	Mr. Colby is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development.
1:39.5	He is the co-founder and principle of the Marathon Initiative,
1:42.6	a policy initiative focused on developing
1:44.4	strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition.
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