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The Dangerous Decade: Can America Deter a War with China?
What will it take to defend Taiwan—and preserve peace with China?
August 31, 2026
Recorded on March 25, 2020.
In this first of a new series of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson conversations done via webcam, Peter Robinson talks to John B. Taylor, the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics. They discuss the huge impact of the COVID-19 virus on the US and world economy, the likely impact of the federal government's multitrillion-dollar relief efforts, and what the economy might look like as we get to the other side of this crisis.
To view the transcript of this conversation, click here.
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