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17 November 2023

John MearsheimerKorrents 17 Nov 2023

From one piece John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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China's leaders think in realist terms and America's do not, which is the more dangerous half of the pairing.

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The Chinese are my kind of people. They're realists, right? They speak my language. It's the United States that is not very realist. American leaders have a very powerful liberal bent and tend not to see the world in realist terms.

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Deterring China over Taiwan does not require being able to beat it, which the United States probably cannot do anyway.

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A lot of people think that to make deterrence work, you have to be able to beat the Chinese and therefore, you need a much bigger military. And I don't think over time that's possible. I think it's probably not even possible now to beat the Chinese in a war over Taiwan or in a war in the South China Sea.

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