Ep 141: Matt Pottinger on the Defense of Taiwan (Boiling Moat #1)

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Matt Pottinger, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Chairman of FDD’s China Program, and author of The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about how a war over Taiwan might start and how it may be prevented.

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Times

• 01:13 Introduction

• 03:11 The Boiling Moat

• 04:54 Is Xi serious?

• 11:35 How to deter China

• 17:40 Out with the old, in with the new

• 24:30 Mapping the scenarios

• 30:14 No such thing as an accidental war

• 35:44 A cognitive trap

• 39:22 Left with no choice

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