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New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives
Sinica Podcast
English - November 10, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsBusiness Society & Culture china news international relations china economy china politics sichuan shenzhen shanghai politics news hangzhou Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Anne-Marie Slaughter, a leading American public intellectual who serves as president of New America and was Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department during the first Obama administration. Anne-Marie talks about how collaboration on issues of global concern — pandemics, global warming, and more — requires the U.S. to deprioritize some aspects of its competition with China.
1:59 – Contradictions of the Biden doctrine
5:18 – Reconciling Biden’s China policy and the possibility of climate cooperation
13:43 – Deemphasizing national security on the American foreign policy agenda
20:23 – Potential for “positive competition”
21:50 – The concept of networked governance
36:04 – The dynamics of groupthink in US decision-making
43:05 – Hope for the younger generation’s prospective policy shift
47:38 – Does race factor into our hostility towards China?
50:19 – Potential for an affirmative vision on Biden’s China policy
54:52 – How revisionist are China’s ambitions?
59:49 – American tolerance for a diminished global role
A transcript of this interview is available at TheChinaProject.com.
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Anne-Marie: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara; The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; What It Feels Like to Be a Bird by David Sibley
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