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254 - The Yale US-China Forum: Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, Yannis Varoufakis, Robin Visser, Yascha Mounk, Pei Wang, Daniel Mattingly

254 - The Yale US-China Forum: Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, Yannis Varoufakis, Robin Visser, Yascha Mounk, Pei Wang, Daniel Mattingly

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In this special episode, Robinson and Karl Zheng Wang co-host at
the Yale US-China Forum. Return guests from the show include
Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, and Yascha Mounk. Slavoj Žižek is
international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the
Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New
York University, and a senior researcher at the University of
Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. Richard Wolff is Professor
Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on
economics in the Marxist tradition. Yascha Mounk is a Professor
of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins
University. He is also a Contributing Editor at the Atlantic, a
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the host
of The Good Fight podcast. Yannis Varoufakis is a Greek economist
and politician, and current Secretary-General of the Democracy in
Europe Movement 2025. Robin Visser is Professor in the Department
of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she researches modern Chinese and
Sinophone literatures, urban cultural studies, and environmental
studies. Pei Wang is Professor in the Chinese History and Culture
Program at the University of Hong Kong, where she specializes in
comparative philosophy, psychoanalysis, and more. Daniel
Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Political Science at
Yale University, where he studies the domestic and international
politics of authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:46 The Future of Europe and China

00:10:40 There Is No Such Thing as Trade Wars, They Are All Class
Wars

00:15:50 How Wall Street’s Failures Fueled the Rise of Tech

00:20:02 Why Is There a New Cold War Between the US and China?

00:27:18 Why the United States Is Abandoning Democracy and Why
China is Yannis Varoufakis’s Only Hope

00:29:26 Richard Wolff to Yannis Varoufakis: Are We Heading
Toward Nuclear War with China?

00:35:58 How Class WARFARE Shaped the World Superpowers CLIP

00:41:01 Is China Capitalism’s Final Form?

00:52:03 Is There Any Way that China and the United Stated Could
Avert Conflict?

00:59:16 Varoufakis to Wolff: Is a Tariff Hail Mary Trump’s Only
Remaining Option?

01:03:39 Daniel Mattingly on China’s Sociopolitical Organization

01:08:39 How Does Xi Jinping Talk About Socialism?

01:13:47 Yascha Mounk on US-China Competition

01:22:36 Philosophy, Socialism, and Capitalism

01:48:40 Pei Wang on the Hero and Father in US-China Competition

01:54:31 Hero and Father Archetypes in Politics

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University.