Alice Han
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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And this happened in the British Empire, the Dutch Empire, the Spanish Empire.
Go back in time.
On this, they're paying their debt.
They're in decline.
Because they are spending more on repaying how much they owe to their creditors instead of building up their military capabilities.
In historical periods, and it's questionable whether or not it's relevant today, empires were overtaken by other powers through military campaigns.
So seeing things like the British win against the Spanish in the Spanish, sorry, the Spanish Armada in 1588.
These military campaigns oftentimes spell war.
a decline in the economic power of a country because if Britain has more ships and is more powerful than Spain, then Spain's not able to get more control of the seas and trade goes down.
They can't get the same amount of silver from Latin America.
And meanwhile, Britain, because it has more ships out there, it can develop trade routes and control those trade routes via the British East India Company, for instance.
So there you have the mix of both the military and the commerce.
So the question is, is that relevant today?
I do think it is, because ultimately, the Taiwan question is both a political and a military question.
The military question is, will the balance of power shift
in the region, in Asia Pacific, in favor of the Chinese.
Right now, the Americans still have supremacy when it comes to naval equipment, nuclear submarines, air denial systems as well.
China's massively catching up though, and the next couple of years may have more PLA ships than the Americans.
But also related to that, America has more operational experience doing combat.
And amphibious.
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