本期节目中，德米特里·科菲纳斯与前克劳德斯特赖克公司首席技术官、银河政策加速器联合创始人兼执行主席德米特里·阿尔佩罗维奇探讨了美中新冷战的现状，以及台湾问题可能引发的潜在冲突。他们比较了冷战一、二期的异同，并分析了美国错失与俄罗斯建立持久和平的机会，以及这一失误如何使美中新冷战更加充满挑战和危险。节目还探讨了台湾的重要性，以及中国无争议地占领台湾可能带来的后果。阿尔佩罗维奇和科菲纳斯讨论了美国霸权的哲学基础，以及维护美国霸权的必要性，包括构建国家团结、解决国内合法诉求、军事工业改革、移民政策等，以及如何阻止中国入侵台湾。阿尔佩罗维奇认为，中国可能在本十年末之前入侵台湾。

🤔 **美中新冷战的现状与挑战:** 阿尔佩罗维奇认为，美中之间已经进入新冷战，台湾是可能引发两大核武国家之间毁灭性冲突的战略热点，类似于冷战时期柏林墙在东西方之间的作用。他指出，美国错失了与俄罗斯建立持久和平的机会，这一失误加剧了美中新冷战的挑战和危险。

🤔 **台湾问题与潜在冲突:** 节目探讨了台湾的重要性，以及中国无争议地占领台湾可能带来的后果。阿尔佩罗维奇和科菲纳斯分析了美国霸权的哲学基础，以及维护美国霸权的必要性，包括构建国家团结、解决国内合法诉求、军事工业改革、移民政策等，以及如何阻止中国入侵台湾。

🤔 **如何应对挑战:** 阿尔佩罗维奇认为，中国可能在本十年末之前入侵台湾。节目探讨了美国如何应对这一挑战，包括加强军事力量、维护国家团结、解决国内问题、促进经济发展等。

🤔 **美中新冷战的本质:** 节目指出，美中新冷战不仅仅是军事对抗，更是一场意识形态和经济竞争。美国需要在维护自身利益的同时，也要寻求与中国合作，避免冲突升级。

In Episode 361 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, the co-founder and fmr. CTO of leading cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and the author of the soon-to-be-released book “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.”

Dmitri Alperovitch makes the case that we are already in the midst of a new Cold War with China and that Taiwan is the strategic flashpoint that risks triggering a devastating conflict between two nuclear powers in a way that West Berlin nearly played during America's last Cold War with the Soviet Union. He and Kofinas discuss the similarities and differences between Cold Wars I and II, including the role played by the USSR as a liberator in Europe and the strong appeal of communism as a competing ideology in the early decades of the First Cold War. They also discuss how America lost an opportunity to build a sustainable peace with post-Soviet Russia and how this has made the new Cold War with China all the more challenging and dangerous.

The episode’s second hour begins with a discussion about the importance of Taiwan and a thought experiment about what would happen in the event of an uncontested Chinese takeover of the island. Alperovitch and Kofinas discuss the philosophical underpinnings of American supremacy and arguments for its preservation, the need to build national unity by addressing legitimate domestic grievances, military-industrial reform, immigration, and what it will take to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan that Dmitri believes could happen before the end of this decade.

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Episode Recorded on 04/19/2024