Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge

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May 1, 2023

Recorded on April 24, 2023. Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books, including Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist. In this conversation, we cover the conflict over Taiwan: why it’s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it. Along the way, Ferguson discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of the United States and Western Europe in both conflicts, and how we can avoid once again living under the threat of nuclear war as we did in Cold War I.

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May 1, 2023 #China

The Chinese Communist Party is terrified of its youth, especially unemployed youth. Right now, China's high youth unemployment rate is making headlines, and the government is really worried. In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at why China's college graduation rates are so high, why that's led to so much unemployment, and why the CCP is making it worse by shaming those with degrees for not wanting to do manual labor.