Are China and America Destined for War? | Far East Geopolitics

Contemporary discussion about Sino-American relations is often couched in language assuming war is inevitable, a fait accompli that is bound to happen at some point in the near to medium future. Informed by historical as well as modern geopolitical understanding, many have bought into the notion of the "Thucydides Trap", that rising vs declining powers are destined for conflict with one another. But is this really how things are going to turn out?

Using open source analysis, historical record and ongoing geopolitical discourse, this video examines the issue of the Thucydides Trap and the likelihood of a future Sino-American war.

Part 2 of 3.

Chapters:
0:00 Thucydides Trap
3:20 Competing Powers vs Competing Systems
7:47 Examples of Compatible Geopolitical Systems
11:58 China in the Washington System
21:10 The Taiwan Question

LITERATURE:

Brzezinski, Z. - The Grand Chessboard

Hahn, E. - Chiang Kai-Shek: An Unauthorized Biography

Kissinger, H. - On China

Manthorpe, J. - Forbidden Nation

Zeihan, P. - The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America

CREDIT:

Pew Research Center - Taiwan polling data

Foreign Policy Magazine - Hillary Clinton: America's Pacific Century

Harvard Belfer Center, Thucydides Trap - https://www.belfercenter.org/thucydides-trap/case-file

Encyclopedia Britannica - Images used

Music - Bataille Decisive, Evangelion 1.0

Made using Powerpoint 2013, PAINT.net and Sony Vegas Pro
All errors mine.