Towards war with China? w/ Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the extent to which war with
China is increasingly being treated as a serious prospect in
Washington and the Pentagon. We also talked about how successful,
or otherwise, the Biden administration has been in constructing
regional alliances against China during the last four years. And we
went on to talk about why the Chinese Communist Party leadership's
decisions over climate policy dwarf the US presidential election in
significance. Finally, we discussed the economic slowdown in the
country and Adam explained why he disagrees with analysts who see
China's economic problems as primarily a consequence of increasing
authoritarianism.