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Peter Thiel: US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation (Vintage Code, 2021)


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China-US relations; technology competition; semiconductor industry; Bitcoin; military technology; intellectual property; surveillance; foreign policy.

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Outline:

(00:00) Start

(00:28) Introduction

(00:54) The Chinese Communist Party vs The West

(02:33) How much technology has China created or stolen

(02:55) Google's Project Maven & China

(03:43) China's rapid military product design vs The Pentagon's slow procurement

(06:30) More Chinese students study in the US than vice versa

(07:53) How to avoid information infiltration as an "open-country"

(09:16) How to stay ahead in Quantum & AI

(12:00) Why did it take us so long to wake up on the threat of China? (Tiananmen)

(14:30) Do we currently have a model of what is going on in China?

(15:08) Xi Jinping has absolute power

(15:30) Semiconductor history

(16:18) What happens when Taiwan Semiconductors or Samsung are coerced by China?

(17:16) You can think of Taiwan as one company

(17:49) Stagnation in Semiconductors in Silicon Valley

(19:50) What is the alternative to Huawei, is 5G overrated?

(21:54) How low-income countries are forced into debt by China

(21:51) The space race with Russia & China

(25:00) Q&A Panel

(25:58) Sino–American IP and Venture Wars

(34:31) Does China have a technical advantage

(35:48) How to improve technology adoption at the Pentagon

(38:38) Bitcoin as a Chinese Financial Weapon Against the USD

(43:00) Total Surveillance

(46:00) US investing in R&D

(01:06:30) How Zero-to-One Competition Theory can apply to foreign policy

(01:09:01) How do you see Tik-Tok (Multilateralism)

(01:13:00) China Infiltrating organisations like WHO

(01:18:10) How can US compete with China

(01:19:20) Are you optimistic?

(01:21:50) Should the world descend on Beijing?

(01:03:33) Competitive advantage of the Pentagon

(01:24:38) How do we benchmark US progress in AI against China?

(01:29:32) Closing remarks

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