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BIPR | World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

October 28, 2024 - 18:30

Dmitri Alperovitch - Sergey Radchenko

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World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

hosted by Professor Renaud Dehousse

Dmitri Alperovitch
Silverado Policy Accelerator; CrowdStrike
Sergey Radchenko
Discussant - Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe

WORLD ON THE BRINK: HOW AMERICA CAN BEAT CHINA IN THE RACE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

A leading national security expert lays out how the United States can keep its place as the world's top superpower in the face of a rising China. Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed, and its vast economy and growing regional aggression threaten to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable.

Like neighboring Russia — which harbors global ambitions of its own — China is now at a turning point. Whereas international sanctions and a turn away from fossil fuels are steadily smothering Russia, China's downfall will be its shrinking population. China's chance to achieve global hegemony will soon disappear, making its quest for power both less certain and more dangerous.

In World on the Brink, security expert Dmitri Alperovitch breaks down not only the significant weaknesses that have so far prevented China from surpassing the United States, but also the key strategies that will enable the US to maintain primacy even as China ramps up its efforts. The US must cultivate crucial alliances, foster domestic innovation in emerging tech fields, and stabilize international relations with adversarial nations in anticipation of a new cold war that seems more likely every day.

As Alperovitch explains, the US must play to its strengths and address its weaknesses, using its leverage as the strongest nation on the planet to tactfully navigate the next cold war. This sharp, timely book is the essential blueprint for doing just that.

DMITRI ALPEROVITCH

Dmitri Alperovitch is a national bestselling author and an internationally recognized thought leader on geopolitics and national security. He is a cofounder and chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think-tank focused on policy solutions in national security, trade and industrial security, and ecological and economic security. Alperovitch is also the cofounder of CrowdStrike, one of the world's largest cybersecurity companies, and has been named in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers and MIT Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35.

In late 2021, Alperovitch was one of the first geopolitical analysts to have publicly predicted that Russia would invade Ukraine later that winter. Alperovitch serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the Department of Homeland Security and as a founding board member of US Government's Cyber Safety Review Board, and has previously served as a special advisor to the Department of Defense. He is the host of Silverado's "Geopolitics Decanted" podcast.
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