Destined for War

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Chamath views Destined for War as the definitive framework for understanding U.S.-China relations, crediting its author's background in nuclear disarmament work as giving him serious authority on the topic. It's presented as essential reading rather than one perspective among many.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the geopolitical conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China—and how it might be prevented. China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one in the field of international relations, violence is the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve. At the time of publication, an unstoppable China approached an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promised to make their countries “great again,” the seventeenth case was looking grim—it still is.

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  Chamath Palihapitiya👍 Recommends

  …introducing graham allison's credentials and major published work on u.s.-china dynamics

  “He's helped dismantle 12,000 Soviet nuclear weapons and his book, Destined for War, remains the definitive framework for understanding the U.S.-China relationship.”

  All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — Graham Allison on the Global Realignment: Iran, China, Israel, Greenlandat 00:28

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