He has a bunch of good points and seems to portray the current state of US-China Relations accurately. We have ceded a ton of ground to them. Couple notable things that he said which stood out.

• China still unable to challenge US Hegemony in Education and Technology. This is a rare one to hear in this context and it is still true even though both have been severely degraded in the last couple decades. China has been unable to surpass us so they’ve undertaken their current strategy of subverting us. These are fixable problems and the first step, as with most issues in the US, is minimizing the power of corporations through anti-trust action and reducing regulation across the board. While avoiding expensive traditional warfare and recirculating the maximal percentage of tax revenue into productive (in the sense that they produce a tangible product) and lean domestic business models as possible. If government is growing in size consistently it is indicative of a failure of society to regulate itself effectively.
• There is no war between nuclear states. This is also broadly true until it’s not, but it’s telling as to the geopolitical models the speaker has bought into. It doesn’t seem like he realizes that although traditional weapons must be built and ready for use as a deterrent to others with traditional weapons the paradigm shift that Nuclear WMDs caused is enormous. The tools of modern warfare are digital and the means that the CCP have utilized to control and homogenize their culture domestically are also digital. Their offensive and defensive capacities are perched precariously on top of a presumed stable foundation in the digital environment. Cyber WMDs will have a disproportional impact on the CCP when compared to the US as our form of government is actually crippled by those means of control that have been imposed. We become stronger because we can function with cognitive dissonance and lack of guidance geopolitically. This breaks the MAD reasoning that his argument harkens back to and I find it heartening that it’s not broadly understood.

Also, steel beams or satellites targeted at major cities and infrastructure is significantly more devastating than a nuclear weapon purely because it’s incredibly cheap in comparison. There is no fallout associated with it. The tactic would be absurdly difficult to detect. The US has dominance already in the upcoming doctrines of space combat and we have held it for sixty years with no appreciable challengers. Dominance in space is an effective counter to Nuclear WMDs.

He has a bunch of good points and seems to portray the current state of US-China Relations accurately. We have ceded a ton of ground to them. Couple notable things that he said which stood out.

• China still unable to challenge US Hegemony in Education and Technology. This is a rare one to hear in this context and it is still true even though both have been severely degraded in the last couple decades. China has been unable to surpass us so they’ve undertaken their current strategy of subverting us. These are fixable problems and the first step, as with most issues in the US, is minimizing the power of corporations through anti-trust action and reducing regulation across the board. While avoiding expensive traditional warfare and recirculating the maximal percentage of tax revenue into productive (in the sense that they produce a tangible product) and lean domestic business models as possible. If government is growing in size consistently it is indicative of a failure of society to regulate itself effectively.
• There is no war between nuclear states. This is also broadly true until it’s not, but it’s telling as to the geopolitical models the speaker has bought into. It doesn’t seem like he realizes that although traditional weapons must be built and ready for use as a deterrent to others with traditional weapons the paradigm shift that Nuclear WMDs caused is enormous. The tools of modern warfare are digital and the means that the CCP have utilized to control and homogenize their culture domestically are also digital. Their offensive and defensive capacities are perched precariously on top of a presumed stable foundation in the digital environment. Cyber WMDs will have a disproportional impact on the CCP when compared to the US as our form of government is actually crippled by those means of control that have been imposed. We become stronger because we can function with cognitive dissonance and lack of guidance geopolitically. This breaks the MAD reasoning that his argument harkens back to and I find it heartening that it’s not broadly understood.

Also, steel beams or satellites targeted at major cities and infrastructure is significantly more devastating than a nuclear weapon purely because it’s incredibly cheap in comparison. There is no fallout associated with it. The tactic would be absurdly difficult to detect. The US has dominance already in the upcoming doctrines of space combat and we have held it for sixty years with no appreciable challengers. A significant presence in space is an effective counter to Nuclear WMDs.

He has a bunch of good points and seems to portray the current state of US-China Relations accurately. We have ceded a ton of ground to them. Couple notable things that he said which stood out.

• China still unable to challenge US Hegemony in Education and Technology. This is a rare one to hear in this context and it is still true even though both have been severely degraded in the last couple decades. China has been unable to surpass us so they’ve undertaken their current strategy of subverting us. These are fixable problems and the first step, as with most issues in the US, is minimizing the power of corporations through anti-trust action and reducing regulation across the board. While avoiding expensive traditional warfare and recirculating the maximal percentage of tax revenue into productive (in the sense that they produce a tangible product) and lean domestic business models as possible. We need to spend tax revenue to actively reduce the size of all governmental institutions by applying the principles of risk management and auditing to perform cost benefit analyses for those reductions and take action to prune when appropriate.
• There is no war between nuclear states. This is also broadly true until it’s not, but it’s telling as to the geopolitical models the speaker has bought into. It doesn’t seem like he realizes that although traditional weapons must be built and ready for use as a deterrent to others with traditional weapons the paradigm shift that Nuclear WMDs caused is enormous. The tools of modern warfare are digital and the means that the CCP have utilized to control and homogenize their culture domestically are also digital. Their offensive and defensive capacities are perched precariously on top of a presumed stable foundation in the digital environment. Cyber WMDs will have a disproportional impact on the CCP when compared to the US as our form of government is actually crippled by those means of control that have been imposed. We become stronger because we can function with cognitive dissonance and lack of guidance geopolitically. This breaks the MAD reasoning that his argument harkens back to and I find it heartening that it’s not broadly understood.