U.S. and China: Edging Toward the Brink?

Published 2024-06-25
Niall Ferguson, the celebrated historian who predicted Cold War II in 2018, has assembled the sharpest minds from both sides of the Bamboo Curtain for a discussion on the future of U.S.-China relations.

David Daokui Li
Andrew Erickson
Niall Ferguson
Keyu Jin
Matt Pottinger

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All Comments (21)
  • @AnnieT369
    The title should be 'US provoking China to a war'.
  • @JY88168
    These 2 Americans esp the most vocal one is the epitome of how deeply the us misunderstands china
  • @dfan8432
    It doesn't matter it is China, Japan or India. The US will not allow any country to overtake it's no.1 position in the world. Asia is a peaceful region since Vietnam war. Don't let the US starts a war here. I hope all the Asian countries understand that.
  • The US has been in the middle east for the last 70 years and has not solved the Palestinian problem. Now the US is blaming TIKTOK on the Israeli-Palestinian problem. This view is ridiculous.
  • In the heads of the Americans:- "As Americans, we could do that and that. But it does not mean Americans would allow other nations such as China to do the same. " They said Chinese are rapidly building up their military power.....Obviously he has not spent time to check the total military spending of the two countries in the last ten years. A nation with 300 bases surrounding another nation expects that nation to refrain from military spending. No wonder that there are conflicts.
  • @lwty
    Keyu stated that young Chinese are highly influenced by Western culture. That’s true. If you visit Chinese cities, Starbucks and McDonalds are flourishing, Shanghai Disney is packed with people. But these young people are not naturally will be friends of US politicians as one panelist expected. Many of these young people do not like CPC, which is natural when there are so many restrictions. But, when they break out of the Great FIre Wall and find out so many misinterpretations and distortions of the facts on China, most of them gradually become strong supporters of CPC. Irony…
  • @geopoliticsfan
    I wish Kishore Mahbubani was in this panel. So tell these two Americans their reality. Every American question is answered with facts. Only Kishore Mahbubani sir tells Americans their real times. Next time when discussing the subject of China and America. So Kishore said to Mahbubani Sir. These two Americans will know.😅😅😅
  • @jsyo9639
    Oh, Matt is exactly that frenetic hyperventilating self, this guy is so far down the rabbit hole paranoia if ever there’s one. Needs to see a psychiatrist with mental
  • @davidlai399
    Yeah China is building up its capabilities because it is being surrounded by 300 US bases in the Pacific. Google search is free.
  • @pardeeptandon
    In 2019 alone, Nato dropped 26,000 bombs on 7 Sovereign countries without UN sanctions, killing thousands and making millions of refugees. Was this done to further Democracy or human rights?
  • @liewkinglim
    Enough of the century of humiliation. Enough of bullies.
  • @haolanzhang4665
    Andrew and Matt have no idea what they were talking about. They don't have any concrete statistics. What their opinions are based on assumptions and ideologies instead of facts. They performed so badly like naive high school students. Is that the intelligence level they can achieve?
  • So strange listening to these adults that apparently represents their countries views yet it’s like school kids arguing about who is friends with who who said what to whom and who is to blame for what! Can’t we please for god sake have grownups at last in humanity? Seeing that we apparently evolve and we have so many with so much education? Humanity is sick and tired of warmongering
  • @waynegore5291
    Kurt Campbell said chinese student should study humianity and social science only. Tom Cotton said Chinese student should study Sharkspear only. I have to say those americans lost their minds, became dilusional.
  • @aihong2971
    Afghanistan was not a war game. It was war. America lost.
  • @veronmath3264
    For calling the whole Country CCP doesn't make sense or it's showing that the Westerners still racist about other Countries's eternal issues
  • @PhilipWong55
    Anywhere in the world, if there is a border dispute, it is usually the result of a line drawn by an Englishman; if it is an internal dispute, it is usually the US fueling it. Difference in implementation of divide and conquer strategy. The 'Arsenal of Democracy' produces 40 percent of the world's weapons. It is a very profitable business model in which other countries buy these weapons to fight each other. The key is maximizing profits without shedding US blood by inducing conflicts between and within countries outside the USA. One client is eager to spend AUD 368 billion to buy a few high-quality used nuclear-powered submarines. This business model's critical components are NATO, QUAD, ANZUS, Five Eyes, AUKUS, and MCC (Mutual Cross-Service Agreement). The US makes the rules, and the US and their friends do not have to follow them. Since WWII, the United States has started 201 wars, overthrew 36 foreign leaders, killed or attempted to kill 50, dropped bombs in 30 countries, and interfered in 86 foreign elections. To make the world safe for democracy, the US has caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in its conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. The CIA was involved in covert operations that resulted in mass killings of communists in over 22 countries, 500,000 to 2,000,000 Indonesian civilians disappeared in 1965-1966.
  • It’s hard to talk to a guy like Matt Pottinger when every other sentence is a lie
  • @johnwhoo6194
    This guy lived in China for 10 years, still has no idea about China what a shame!