The New World Order?

About this episode

David Murrin and Horatio discuss the shifting world order with a focus on the rising power of China and the implications for the U.S.-led West.

In the third episode of the State of it podcast, Horatio and David Murrin discuss a shifting world order: a declining, alliance-strained U.S.-led West versus a rising, industrially scaled China at the centre of an “axis of autocracy.” David argues China has converted economic weight into military power (missiles, drones, hypersonics), created large anti-access/area-denial zones, and now holds the upper hand. David foresees a decade-long global conflict cycle unless the West urgently mobilises...

People in this episode

Host: David Murrin

Guest: Horatio

Topics covered

• world order
• China
• U.S. politics
• military power
• global conflict
• autocracy

Keywords

• world order
• China
• U.S.
• military power
• global conflict
• autocracy
• economic weight

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Organizations: China, U.S.

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