Red World International

12/13/20 • 22 min

China has been gaining ground. After decades of expansion its economy, technology, and military are formidable. Everyone wonders if and when it will grow more powerful than the United States. Many think a global power transition is inevitable, one where America exits stage left and China enters stage right. But will China actually run the world?
Can China run the world? The US certainly seems to. Maybe all China has to do is take its place? Maybe it is as easy as sitting on an empty throne
Maybe not.
Tune in to hear what it takes to run the world and where China’s global ambitions will take it.

Previous Episode

Weighing the Dragon

What is China's true potential?
Evaluating a country's prospects can be hard because globalization briefly altered the basic mechanics of economic development. For decades capital, resources, and technologies flowed to every corner of the world. Anything seemed possible. Regions that had never developed came online for the first time. In this context how much of China's success was a result of the unique circumstances of the last few decades? And was China's ancient wealth and power really what we imagine it to be? Tune in to hear what China looks like when fact is separated from fiction.

Next Episode

A Changing of the Guard

Trump is gone but tensions between the United States and China remain. In fact they are getting worse. Much worse.

Every day both countries fire new sanctions and recriminations at each other. Biden appointed a Taiwanese-American trade lawyer as his Trade Representative. China is flexing its military muscles around Taiwan, Japan, and the South China Sea. A contentious first meeting in Alaska was deadlocked from the outset.

Pundits are loudly talking about a new Cold War and an extended conflict between the two countries.

So what is in store for the US-China relationship? Does new American leadership change things? Can China exploit Biden for its benefit? Did China successfully exploit Trump?

And when all is said and done - once we peel off the varnish - will a President Biden really be all that different from a President Trump?

On China the answer is already pretty clear.

Tune in to hear how a bad relationship between the United States and China is about to get a whole lot worse.