Inside "Defending Taiwan": How to prevent a war between China and the US with Eyck Freymann

For Beijing, I hope that they will say the United States actually does have a strategy to use every element of its national power to preserve peace and stability without provoking us, and that we should not assume that the United States is incapable of such an effective response.

In Taiwan, I think the lesson is the United States trusts the people of Taiwan to choose the best future for themselves.

And ultimately, Taiwan's fate is up to the people of Taiwan to choose.

That is the heart of what the American one China policy is about and must be about.

And the people of Taiwan must choose and that the United States will respect their choices.

I think that is a very profound insight that doesn't get said often enough.

Welcome to Analyze Podcast, the premier podcast dedicated to dissecting the pulse of business technology and media globally.

I'm Bernard Leung, and the rivalry between the United States and China has become the defining strategic question of this century.

Most debates default to Cold War analogies, containment, blocks, and inevitable clash between superpowers.

But a growing group of historians and strategists argues that the deeper danger is in the Thucydides Trap.

When a rising power challenges an established one, fear, miscalculation and domestic politics can turn competition into conflict.

Today, we examine whether Washington and Beijing are destined for confrontation or whether diplomacy, deterrence, interdependence or technological governance can bend the curve away from war.

With me today is Ike Freiman, Hoover Fellow at Stanford and author of a new book, which I really enjoy reading, Defending Taiwan, A Strategy to Prevent War with China.

We will discuss the great power rivalry, Taiwan technology, allied coordination across Asia and Xi Jinping's 24-9 horizon.

So Ike, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much Bernard for having me on.

Really looking forward to getting into it.

For Beijing, I hope that they will say the United States actually does have a strategy to use every element of its national power to preserve peace and stability without provoking us, and that we should not assume that the United States is incapable of such an effective response.

In Taiwan, I think the lesson is the United States trusts the people of Taiwan to choose the best future for themselves.

And ultimately, Taiwan's fate is up to the people of Taiwan to choose.

That is the heart of what the American one China policy is about and must be about.

And the people of Taiwan must choose and that the United States will respect their choices.

I think that is a very profound insight that doesn't get said often enough.

Welcome to Analyze Podcast, the premier podcast dedicated to dissecting the pulse of business technology and media globally.

I'm Bernard Leung, and the rivalry between the United States and China has become the defining strategic question of this century.

Most debates default to Cold War analogies, containment, blocks, and inevitable clash between superpowers.

But a growing group of historians and strategists argues that the deeper danger is in the Thucydides Trap.

When a rising power challenges an established one, fear, miscalculation and domestic politics can turn competition into conflict.

Today, we examine whether Washington and Beijing are destined for confrontation or whether diplomacy, deterrence, interdependence or technological governance can bend the curve away from war.

With me today is Ike Freiman, Hoover Fellow at Stanford and author of a new book, which I really enjoy reading, Defending Taiwan, A Strategy to Prevent War with China.

We will discuss the great power rivalry, Taiwan technology, allied coordination across Asia and Xi Jinping's 24-9 horizon.

So Ike, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much Bernard for having me on.

Really looking forward to getting into it.