2024-05-03
38 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
Im head of programming Connor Boyle.
This episode is the second part of our live event with the historian Neil Ferguson discussing some of the biggest geopolitical issues of the day and how we got here.
If you havent heard the first part, just jump back an episode and get up to speed.
Neil Ferguson, along with journalist Riddle Asha, were on stage at Londons Conway hall recently for our intelligence Squared live event, discussing the big global political topics western governments are grappling with today.
Fergusons recent book, Doom the Politics of Catastrophe, is a great read, telling us how we ended up with much of the world seemingly in crisis.
And if you want to hear even more of what was a great conversation, you can get our exclusive members only part three installment by becoming a member of Intelligence Squared.
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Now let's jump back into part two.
Here's Riddle Ashah and Neil Ferguson in.
Conversation, something that Republicans and Democrats possibly the only thing agree on is the concerns about China.
The Biden administration has pretty much continued the sort of policies that were initiated under Trump.
You're the biographer of Kissinger.
Famously, he reestablished ties with China.
The visit by Nixon in 71.
Sorry, his secret visit in 71.
The visit by Nixon in 72.
And he, but last year was really quite gloomy about US China relations.
Before his death, he, though, applied the idea of detemps to the Soviet Union.
Do you think that idea could be applied to relations with China?