#PRC: What of a "ticking time bomb?" Jonathan Ward, author of the just-released The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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#PRC: What of a "ticking time bomb?" Jonathan Ward, author of the just-released The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/biden-calls-china-ticking-time-bomb-economic-problems-rcna99397
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| 0:35.5 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague |
| 0:38.8 | and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. We welcome the author, Jonathan Ward. |
| 0:44.1 | The new book is the decisive decade. American grand strategy for triumph over China. |
| 0:50.0 | Jonathan, a very good day to you. The president of the United States at a fundraiser |
| 0:53.6 | over these last days used the metaphor of a ticking time bomb about the erosion of confidence in |
| 1:01.9 | China having to do with the miracles no longer being evident in their economy. I believe the |
| 1:07.0 | president was speaking of the risks of war, the risks of a predator attack by China. Do you |
| 1:14.0 | account for a ticking time bomb? Does that metaphor make sense to you? Good evening to you, Jonathan. |
| 1:19.1 | Good evening, John. Good evening, Gordon. Look, I think that people's Republic of China has always |
| 1:23.1 | been a ticking time bomb for the United States. They've told us about their ascendancy, |
| 1:27.7 | about their vision for world order. They've told us that going to war with their region is part |
| 1:33.2 | of that vision. Now people are describing the tensions that are continuing to rise as part of |
| 1:39.5 | an economic decline of China. I think whether it's the economic ascendancy or the economic decline |
| 1:44.7 | China's military modernization, its territorial claims, its conflict with the United States have |
| 1:48.8 | always been part of it. It's just coming into sharper and sharper relief as every month and quarter |
| 1:55.6 | goes by. I think the president's remarks were, as his office script remarks, often are, we're |
| 2:01.7 | insightful and honest and interesting. Yes, this is where we are. We're dealing with a country |
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