Henrietta Levin: Something Huge Just Shifted Between The U.S. And China - And It's Very Bad News For The West

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Henrietta Levin discusses significant shifts in US-China relations and their geopolitical implications.

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ ➡️ Buy your own Geopolitics of the Western Pacific Map Print: https://decoding-geopolitics-shop.fourthwall.com/ This is a conversation with Henriette Levin, a senior fellow in China Studies at CSIS. She argues that something very very important has changed in the relations between China and the US - or actually several things - over the past 2 years since Trump returned to the White House. And that those shifts will have - and are already having - enormous geopolitical consequences - even almost no one has realized this change just yet. And that this change will mean pretty bad news for the United States and very good news for China. We talk about what those changes are, which ones we have already seen at the latest China-US summit, why people in Taiwan might have a good reason to start getting pretty nervous and how all that might increase the risk of a potential conflict. And much more.

People in this episode

Host: Dominik Presl

Guest: Henrietta Levin

Topics covered

• US-China relations
• geopolitical consequences
• Taiwan security
• conflict risk
• China studies

Keywords

• US-China relations
• geopolitics
• Henrietta Levin
• Taiwan
• geopolitical consequences
• conflict risk
• China studies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CSIS

Places: United States, China, Taiwan

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