Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

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Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books, including Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist. In this conversation, we cover the conflict over Taiwan: why it’s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it.

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0:00.0	Just how serious is the emerging conflict with China?
0:04.0	It has already turned into Cold War II.
0:08.0	Historian Neil Ferguson on Uncommon Knowledge Now.
0:22.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.
0:24.0	A fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:26.0	Neil Ferguson received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oxford.
0:30.0	Before coming here to Stanford, he held posts at Oxford, Cambridge, New York University, Harvard,
0:36.0	and the London School of Economics.
0:38.0	Dr. Ferguson is the author of more than a dozen major works of history,
0:42.0	including the Pity of War, Explaining World War I,
0:46.0	the Ascent of Money, Empire, how Britain made the modern world,
0:50.0	and we come now to today's topic, Kissinger,
0:54.0	the idealist, the first volume of his two-volume biography of Henry Kissinger,
0:58.0	one of the most important figures of the first long Cold War.
1:02.0	Dr. Ferguson is now completing his second volume of the two-volume biography of Henry Kissinger.
1:08.0	Completing it, yes, Neil?
1:10.0	Yes, that's the plan.
1:11.0	Got it.
1:12.0	All right.
1:13.0	Neil Ferguson in National Review,
1:15.0	there was a first world war, then there was a second.
1:19.0	They were not identical, but they were sufficiently similar
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