The Plane Truth: Playing Chicken with China, Trump Goes Gulf-ing, Tensions in South Asia

飞机真相:与中国玩碰瓷,特朗普海湾游说,南亚紧张局势

GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics

2025-05-15

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America and China take a 90-day time-out in their dispute over tariffs; President Trump’s tour of the Middle East—the first overseas trip of his second term—raises unsettling questions about both his regional strategy and his family’s business dealings; and hostilities between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan raise questions of behind-the-scenes great-power machinations amidst “Cold War 2.” Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster discuss what’s at stake in these various parts of the globe. After that: the three fellows debate the severity of Chinese espionage in America’s universities; and how AI’s ability to shortcut the learning process will impact the future of higher education.    Recorded on May 14, 2025.
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  • you It's Wednesday, May 14, 2025, and welcome back to Goodfellows,

  • a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

  • I'm Bill Whalen.

  • I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.

  • I'll be your moderator today.

  • And joining me as per usual are our three Goodfellows.

  • So welcome back to the show.

  • Well, he's devout Protestant, but if the new pope could somehow engineer an Arsenal,

  • excuse me, football championship, he might convert.

  • We welcome back the distinguished historian, Sir Neil Ferguson.

  • Very good to be back.

  • Very good to be back when my father would turn in his grave.

  • Not even Arsenal's winning the Premiership is worth a mass.

  • They're kind of the same, man.

  • I've got to tell you, like, I've got to go, well, we'll do the first high school.

  • It's the same thing.

  • Henry VIII wanted a divorce, man.

  • There's a whole episode of Goodfellas we could have on the Reformation.

  • We could do it now, or we could stick to topic.

  • We'll get the topic in a minute.