Can We Compete With China While Avoiding War?
Published 2024-05-28
Panel #2 on American Prosperity centers in on US-China relations, with speakers debating the best approach to competing with China. Some argue for a more aggressive stance, while others advocate for a nuanced approach that balances competitiveness and innovation with maintaining a sustainable connection to China.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and editorial director of its online magazine, Responsible Statecraft. Previously she served as executive editor managing editor, and longtime foreign policy/national security writer at the American Conservative magazine. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter for Fox News.
Saagar Enjeti is co-host of the popular political podcast, Breaking Points. Before that he co-hosted The Hill's Rising podcast. He is also a Tony Blankley fellow at the Steamboat Institute. He previously served as media fellow at Hudson Institute, and White House Correspondent for the Daily Caller.
David Goldman is Deputy Editor of Asia Times and a Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is also a contributing editor at American Affairs. Formerly he headed several research departments at major Wall Street firms, and was a partner at the Hong Kong investment bank Reorient Group. His book, "You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World" was published in 2020.
Jake Werner is the Acting Director of the East Asia program at the Quincy Institute. His research examines the emergence of great power conflict between the U.S. and China and develops policies to rebuild constructive economic relations. Prior to joining Quincy, Jake was a Postdoctoral Global China Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.
All Comments (21)
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Avoiding war with China can be VERY easily avoided. China has only ONE red line, Taiwan. As long as the "One China" policy is maintained there will not be war. The US can help ensure peace by telling their Taiwanese stooges to shut up with the independence talk.
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The US arming Taiwan is like China arming Hawaii to separate from the union.....do you see how ridicule this is...
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Stupid question. Best ask Why don't we cooperate with China and forget about war?
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Taiwan is not country. I think you fail your history.
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You are not competing, you are oppressing, period
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This panel showed the decay and decline of the USA and the West.
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USA was a great country and that's why i came here >20 years ago. however, since Obama's 'pivot to Asia' followed by Trump and Biden's unsuccessful attempt to contain China, USA is no longer the USA i knew. it spent most of its effort and attention trying to suppress others instead of improving itself. it's a very sad decline to witness...
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Why do we have to worry about China growth when they’re not concerned about ours?
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This is the dumbest bully's mentality when loosing a game.
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The tone of the debate is clear - the US is having great difficulties competing with China. Yet, none of the speakers were willing to confront the huge elephants in the room. ELEPHANT 1 - The brutally adversarial US political system that constantly makes mince meat out of the other cannot be singular focused, effective and efficient. That's liberal democracy's claim to fame. A family where mom and dad is constantly at each other's throats can't be a happy, united and productive family. ELEPHANT 2 - Ronald Reagan said the "Government is the problem". Since then, government was essentially privatised and thus begin the gradual decline of America. Until this doctrine is reversed, America's decline will continue. COMPETENT government is your solution. ELEPHANT 3 - "It's not our fault. It's China's fault." The first principle for any alcoholic to find a cure is to admit he is an alcoholic. America has some serious domestic issues it must address before America can compete with China. Start by fixing ELEPHANT 1 AND 2. Then, with all the humility one can muster, let the 250-year young America learn from the 3,000 years old civilisation called China.
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China is NOT a hagemon but US is!
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Problem is that US has lost confidence of competing with China in economic terms.
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Hegemony, which country invaded dozens of countries and killed millions of civilians in the occupied territories!
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"Competition rooted fundamentally in the game of fairness" LOL USA is already competing unfairly on the global stage with the ability to print the dollar. That gives them media dominance, financial dominance, military dominance, tech and talents dominance, resources dominance. The USA has no rights to claim they play in a fair competition. The USA is losing a handicapped game where it has a great advantage over all other players, and it's jumping up and down. Please grow up!
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The US Government gave Tesla USD34B as subsidy to Tesla while the Chinese Government only gave USD2B to the whole of China EV manufacturers which are in the tens or maybe in the hundred.😂😂
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The whole US / China problem can be explained as follows: back in 1990s, US large corporations dumped their US based manufactures for China's cheap labors. Since then, these companies made tons of money, and China was their good friend. However, US blue collar workers got fucked (for losing their jobs). Fast moving to 2010, the Chinese local companies got more and more competitive and kicked out the US companies one by one. Now these same US companies got pissed off and starting to blame the Chinese for stealing jobs from the Americans (but who initiated this for God sake). Now in 2024, these Chinese companies are chasing out the US companies everywhere in the world (such as the EV market). The sour losers in US are thinking of wars to stop this! Forget about fair competition or free trade. But David P. Goldman was spot on: the Chinese has the home court advantage, so a war close to Taiwan will not happen.
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Close your is eyes and imagine this was 20 years ago, they would have been talking about Japan. The thing they all do not understand is that China is not Japan.
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These talks never invite and actual Chinese person to participate, I wonder why.
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I am having my dinner and almost choked when the moderator said something about "hegemonic China", which is ABSOLUTELY absurd in comparison with how the RoW views the US. I paused the video to write this little note, and will move on to another video.
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20:51 'China graduates more engineers than the world combined'. RIGHT ON.
