Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Niall Ferguson | Cold War with China? | #CLIP" video.

  1. "China doesn't do conquest" How in the world did it get to be China, then? And, what about Tibet? Inner Mongolia? Sinkiang?
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  2. The population of China exceeds the population of the United States, and the general belief is that that will tip the scales in China's favor, even if the United States continues its flat-out defense spending. HOWEVER, if you add to the US' side of the scale, Australia, Japan, India, and any other country in the region that does not wish to be dominated by China, those scales tip back rather nicely. It will involve other countries stepping up, though. Provided that Japan re-envisions its military actions along American lines (as opposed to the bad old days of Imperial military), they will be an enormously effective ally. Australia will be part of a Commonwealth led by the United States rather than Britain, which isn't really that much of a change from the last 150 years. If population becomes critical, India can certainly step into a major role in that alliance. With coordination, cooperation, and everyone doing their bit, the fact that the rest of the world is rising up to America's level in terms of technology and prosperity, can be a very good thing. And in any case, we should always remember, "China, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide." They are more united now than ever, it seems.
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  3.  @jimmywang1586  Xi Jinping married the Dalai Lama? I'd have thought that would make the news.
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  4. If we're going to have a good Cold War, we need to have a set of ideals we can rally around, and an ideology we can oppose. I suggest we rally around Liberty and Democracy, and oppose the ideology of Authoritarian Bureaucracy. This can harness the energy of Trumpism that we've seen over the last half-decade or so as well as our own history and heritage, it fits out opposition to a T, and it would help us all work out some of the major problems and questions of our time (as shown by Covid), like "how much power and authority should we give experts and government programs, as opposed to having freedom to work things out for ourselves?"
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