New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Anne-Marie Slaughter, a leading American public intellectual who serves as president of New America and was Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department during the first Obama administration. Anne-Marie talks about how collaboration on issues of global concern — pandemics, global warming, and more — requires the U.S. to deprioritize some aspects of its competition with China. 1:59 – Contradictions of the Biden doctrine 5:18 – Reconciling Biden’s China policy and the possibility of climate cooperation 13:43 – Deemphasizing national security on the American foreign policy agenda    20:23 – Potential for “positive competition” 21:50 – The concept of networked governance 36:04 – The dynamics of groupthink in US decision-making 43:05 – Hope for the younger generation’s prospective policy shift   47:38 – Does race factor into our hostility towards China? 50:19 – Potential for an affirmative vision on Biden’s China policy 54:52 – How revisionist are China’s ambitions? 59:49 – American tolerance for a diminished global role A transcript of this interview is available at TheChinaProject.com. Recommendations: Anne-Marie: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara; A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara; The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; What It Feels Like to Be a Bird by David Sibley Kaiser: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.