Robert Wright
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595 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Have you thought about this at all and
I guess I'd approach it.
from the other end, uh which is to say w not with many specific ideas, but
What you said plays well into the thing I would say, which is that okay, it's very challenging.
You're gonna need some transparency and so on.
And so
I would say uh, you know.
You have to start thinking about putting the US China relationship on a fundamentally different basis.
And turning it into a relationship that involves uh less sense of mutual threat.
Uh and by the way, one frustrating thing is we know from history.
That the way dynamics the way it works when you've got a perceived adversary is both sides tend to perceive things done for defensive reasons on the other side as offensive.
We've seen this before.
And you keep seeing it it uh the threat inflation feed each other and it's just it's just I see I've been I've been alive quite a quite a long period of time compared to you.
And I've just I've like lived through this again and again.
And we keep saying, Oh, that was a mistake.
Oh, Vietnam was a mistake.
Oh, the Iraq invasion was a mistake.
And it's like, yeah, there's a general theme here, folks.
Neither Vietnam nor Iraq was an actual threat to the United States.
Um and uh so
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