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