Peter Thiel: US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation (Vintage Code, 2021)
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Outline:
(00:00 ) Start
(00:28 ) Introduction
(00:54 ) The Chinese Communist Party vs The West
(02:33 ) How much technology has China created or stolen
(02:55 ) Google's Project Maven & China
(03:43 ) China's rapid military product design vs The Pentagon's slow procurement
(06:30 ) More Chinese students study in the US than vice versa
(07:53 ) How to avoid information infiltration as an "open-country"
(09:16 ) How to stay ahead in Quantum & AI
(12:00 ) Why did it take us so long to wake up on the threat of China? (Tiananmen)
(14:30 ) Do we currently have a model of what is going on in China?
(15:08 ) Xi Jinping has absolute power
(15:30 ) Semiconductor history
(16:18 ) What happens when Taiwan Semiconductors or Samsung are coerced by China?
(17:16 ) You can think of Taiwan as one company
(17:49 ) Stagnation in Semiconductors in Silicon Valley
(19:50 ) What is the alternative to Huawei, is 5G overrated?
(21:54 ) How low-income countries are forced into debt by China
(21:51 ) The space race with Russia & China
(25:00 ) Q&A Panel
(25:58 ) Sino–American IP and Venture Wars
(34:31 ) Does China have a technical advantage
(35:48 ) How to improve technology adoption at the Pentagon
(38:38 ) Bitcoin as a Chinese Financial Weapon Against the USD
(43:00 ) Total Surveillance
(46:00 ) US investing in R&D
(01:06:30 ) How Zero-to-One Competition Theory can apply to foreign policy
(01:09:01 ) How do you see Tik-Tok (Multilateralism)
(01:13:00 ) China Infiltrating organisations like WHO
(01:18:10 ) How can US compete with China
(01:19:20 ) Are you optimistic?
(01:21:50 ) Should the world descend on Beijing?
(01:03:33 ) Competitive advantage of the Pentagon
(01:24:38 ) How do we benchmark US progress in AI against China?
(01:29:32 ) Closing remarks
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