The Return of Great Powers

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto sits down with FP Live to share insights from his new book, The Return of Great Powers. What does a growing alliance between Russia and China mean for U.S. influence abroad? How does this moment differ from past historical instances of great-power competition? And how could this all shift with a potential second term for Donald Trump? Suggested reading: Ravi Agrawal: Did Russia Come Close to Using a Nuclear Device in 2022? Jim Sciutto: The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War Jim Sciutto: The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.6	editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.
0:40.8	Welcome to the show. I wanted to take a bigger picture view on the show this week.
0:46.2	We're often focused on the war in Ukraine and conflict in the Middle East, but meanwhile,
0:51.1	the risk of something even more dangerous, a great power conflict, could actually be higher than it's been in decades.
0:58.7	Think about it.
0:59.9	America is in relative decline.
1:01.8	China and other countries are rising.
1:04.3	The post-Bretton Woods order is being challenged.
1:07.1	And amid this, diplomacy has gotten weaker and communication between militaries is declining,
1:13.0	the risk of a big mistake is high. That's the theme of a new book, The Return of Great Powers,
1:20.3	Russia, China, and the next World War. The author of that book, Jim Shuto, argues that
1:26.7	2024 could be another 1939.
1:30.5	In other words, there are many similarities between the period we're in and the years leading
1:35.4	up to World War II.
1:37.2	Now, as I told him, there are many differences between then and now, including the fact that
1:42.0	all those countries that were then colonized
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