Michael Beckley and Hal Brands, “Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China”

Michael Beckley and Hal Brands discuss their new book Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China. Beckley and Brands argue that China today fits the profile of a dangerous adversary, a rising power reaching peak growth with an increasingly reckless leadership. China is at a perilous moment: strong enough to challenge the existing order, yet losing confidence that time is on its side.
Sketching the scenario of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2025, the authors argue that such an attack would not be the “inevitable outcome of China’s growing strength and confidence,” but a gamble made by Chinese leaders fearful that the country is on the cusp of decline.
Michael Beckley is an Associate Professor of political science at Tufts University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Hal Brands is a Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

[@newdawnrising8110]

Thank you for this important interview and discussion and thank you guys for this very timely and important book. Sadly it really does look like time is running out. I think many of us have been expecting this for many years. Our leaders have got to focus laser sharp on this coming conflict and our preparations bc it will determine all of our futures. To underestimate the danger near can cost us all our country. Time to come together and prepare now for us all.

[@mysticalwind4632]

The reputation of two repugnant individuals rests on betting that war does occur. That is quite pathetic to say the least.

[@Hubie10]

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