Today I spoke with Emily de La Bruyère, a senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and the founder of Horizon Advisory. We discussed China’s economic role in the global economic ecosystem as well as US/China great power competition.

In this edition you’ll hear Emily and me discuss:

• How relationships between the US and China are deteriorating and why that trend will likely continue…

• Why US regulatory controls will likely prove ineffective in protecting domestic industry from Chinese encroachment…

• How Taiwan’s economic dependence on China poses the greatest threat to its stability and future…

• What the US and Europe ultimately must do in order to successfully decouple from China…

• Why US and European private industry will eventually lose access to Chinese markets…

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Video Time Stamps

00:00 Introduction
00:26 The relationship between the US and China and the need to decouple
1:26 Introduction of Emily
1:53 China’s ultimate global and industrial strategy
2:11 China’s role in the world’s economic ecosystem
2:27 – Yes, this is a great power competition
2:40 Where competition will play out
3:15 Why US/China relations will continue to fray
3:53 China wants global control—not global leadership
4:47 Why fundamental mainstream analysis misunderstands Taiwan
5:25 Rising US/China tensions over Taiwan
5:45 Taiwan’s outsized economic dependence on China
6:26 How Chinese industry threatens US security interests
7:03 Why the US and Europe need to get on the same page
7:34 Why Airbus is a microcosm of European industry in China
8:41 The looming danger to the industrial private sector
9:23 Why US restrictions and regulations are ultimately ineffective
9:48 How China can still access US industry and technologies
10:21 The real difficulty in decoupling from China quickly
11:23 US military dependence on Chinese manufacturing
12:06 Chinese markets aren’t a recipe for infinite growth
12:47 There is no free lunch—European companies will lose Chinese markets
13:21 Decoupling—the risks of inaction
14:18 Is the CHIPS Act a good start?
15:29 Why semiconductors are just the beginning
16:03 The two US/China decoupling scenarios that could play out
17:24 Chinese control over new industries and production
18:21 The grim repercussions of inaction
18:54 Europe hasn’t picked a side but sooner or later it will have to
19:44 The decline of US industry
20:17 How we can develop more reshored production without inflation
21:13 The inevitability of an inflationary cycle
21:39 The crucial rise of Canada, Mexico, and Europe in decoupling
22:30 Where to get more information from Emily

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