E220 - The Perils of Competition With China w/ Michael Brenes

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads. Great Power Week continues here at American Prestige as historian Michael Brenes joins the show to talk about how prolonged competition with China threatens democracy, peace, and prosperity. They compare Biden and Trump’s respective approaches to China, whether the national security establishment is trying to manufacture an existential threat out of The People’s Republic, whether there is any national interest in a new Cold War, the degradation in American leaders, why rivalry is bad economically, erodes American society’s social fabric, and leads to violence, and alternatives to the great power framework. Read his book on the matter (co-authored with AP regular Van Jackson), The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy. Don’t miss the companion episode with Stacie Goddard from Sunday, “The Era of Great Power Competition.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	And I, as always, and Derek as always, is very excited comrade Derek Davison and I as always and
1:11.7	Derek as always is very excited are very excited to welcome back to the podcast Mike
1:16.1	Brennis Mike has been on many times before he is an expert in the military
1:20.1	industrial complex and he is also an associate director of the Brady Johnson
1:23.8	program in Grand Strategy and lexir in History at Yale University.
1:28.8	And he's also the co-author with Van Jackson of a recent book titled The Rivalry Peril,
1:33.3	How Great Power Competitions Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy.
1:38.2	Mike, thank you so much for joining us.
1:40.3	Thanks, guys.
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