World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch

World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

by Dmitri Alperovitch

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Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch's hawkish strategic argument that the US is in a contest with China for the 21st century, that the contest will be won or lost largely on technology and Taiwan, and that current US posture is inadequate.

Core ideas
  • The contest is real, structural, and not resolvable through engagement — China's strategic objectives and the US's are genuinely incompatible, and the policy of integration that prevailed from Clinton through Obama was a mistake premised on convergence that didn't happen.
  • Taiwan is the decisive flashpoint — both because of its semiconductor industry and because of what its absorption would signal — and Alperovitch's recommended posture is significantly more militarized than current policy.
  • Technology decoupling, supply-chain reshoring, and aggressive industrial policy are treated as necessary, not optional — the consumer cost is real but the strategic cost of not doing them is higher.
Published2024
Pages400
ISBN9781541704091
ReadJun 2024
US-China competition

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