This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Anne-Marie Slaughter, a leading American public intellectual who serves as president of New America and was Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department during the first Obama administration. Anne-Marie talks about how collaboration on issues of global concern — pandemics, global warming, and more — requires the U.S. to deprioritize some aspects of its competition with China.
1:59 – Contradictions of the Biden doctrine
5:18 – Reconciling Biden’s China policy and the possibility of climate cooperation
13:43 – Deemphasizing national security on the American foreign policy agenda
20:23 – Potential for “positive competition”
21:50 – The concept of networked governance
36:04 – The dynamics of groupthink in US decision-making
43:05 – Hope for the younger generation’s prospective policy shift
47:38 – Does race factor into our hostility towards China?
50:19 – Potential for an affirmative vision on Biden’s China policy
54:52 – How revisionist are China’s ambitions?
59:49 – American tolerance for a diminished global role
A transcript of this interview is available at TheChinaProject.com.
Recommendations:
Anne-Marie: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara; The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; What It Feels Like to Be a Bird by David Sibley
Kaiser: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
