Peter Thiel: US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation (Vintage Code, 2021)

China-US relations; technology competition; semiconductor industry; Bitcoin; military technology; intellectual property; surveillance; foreign policy. ---Outline:(00:00) Start(00:28) Introduction(00:54) The Chinese Communist Party vs The West(02:33) How much technology has China created or stolen(02:55) Google's Project Maven & China(03:43) China's rapid military product design vs The Pentagon's slow procurement(06:30) More Chinese students study in the US than vice versa(07:53) How to avoid information infiltration as an "open-country"(09:16) How to stay ahead in Quantum & AI(12:00) Why did it take us so long to wake up on the threat of China? (Tiananmen)(14:30) Do we currently have a model of what is going on in China?(15:08) Xi Jinping has absolute power(15:30) Semiconductor history(16:18) What happens when Taiwan Semiconductors or Samsung are coerced by China?(17:16) You can think of Taiwan as one company(17:49) Stagnation in Semiconductors in Silicon Valley(19:50) What is the alternative to Huawei, is 5G overrated?(21:54) How low-income countries are forced into debt by China(21:51) The space race with Russia & China(25:00) Q&A Panel(25:58) Sino–American IP and Venture Wars(34:31) Does China have a technical advantage(35:48) How to improve technology adoption at the Pentagon(38:38) Bitcoin as a Chinese Financial Weapon Against the USD(43:00) Total Surveillance(46:00) US investing in R&D(01:06:30) How Zero-to-One Competition Theory can apply to foreign policy(01:09:01) How do you see Tik-Tok (Multilateralism)(01:13:00) China Infiltrating organisations like WHO(01:18:10) How can US compete with China(01:19:20) Are you optimistic?(01:21:50) Should the world descend on Beijing?(01:03:33) Competitive advantage of the Pentagon(01:24:38) How do we benchmark US progress in AI against China?(01:29:32) Closing remarks--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcKWtiFzIY