Why the U.S. May Come Out on Top Against China

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Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Great powers don’t always go great together, often viewing each other as rivals, if not enemies. After the Cold War, the United States was viewed as the last superpower standing. But not only has Russia and its nuclear arsenal stubbornly refused to go away, China has kept on rising.

Now, people at the highest levels of government are trying to figure out whether China and the United States can play nice together, but whether the 21st will be the Chinese Century.

Joining us to help understand the situation is Matthew Kroenig. Kroenig is both a political scientist and national security strategist at the Atlantic Council.

He is also the author of the Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China Matthew Kroenig.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast.
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0:21.0	And unfortunately I think this is probably at least a generation, generations long struggle. I think it's pretty clear that President
0:24.5	she and the leadership around him think that this is China's time that they can
0:28.4	challenge the United States and so at least as long as they're in power, I think we are going to have these more difficult relations with China. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the
0:50.4	front lines.
0:51.9	Here are your hosts. Hello and I'm Matthew Gault. Great powers don't always go great together, often viewing each other as rivals if not enemies.
1:16.0	After the Cold War, the United States was viewed as the last superpower standing.
1:21.0	But not only is Russia and its nuclear arsenal stubbornly
1:25.3	refused to go away, China has kept rising. Now people at the highest levels of
1:30.9	government are trying to figure out whether China and the United States can play nice together.
1:35.0	But whether the 21st century will be the Chinese century is the biggest question.
1:41.0	Joining us to help understand the situation is Matthew Kranig.
1:44.8	Kraning is both a political scientist and national security
1:48.9	strategist at the Atlantic Council.
1:51.2	He is also the author of the return of great power rivalry,
1:56.5	Democracy versus Autocracy from the ancient world to the US and China.
2:07.0	To be completely transparent I've done some consulting work for the council as well. Matthew, thank you so much for joining us.
2:12.0	Jason, thank you very much for having me on.
2:14.0	I'm looking forward to the discussion.
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