On this year’s anniversary of the 9/11 attack, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall issued a stark warning about China, calling it a ‘pacing challenge’ for U.S. security. “We must be ready for a kind of war we have no modern experience with,” were Kendall’s words.
The latest guest on my TV series Exponentially, historian Niall Ferguson, explains this moment we find ourselves in as
…the first inning, the early phase of Cold War II. The Cuban missile crisis in this Cold War will be a Taiwan semiconductor crisis. […] One of the most interesting things about our time is that we went very quickly from what I call Chimerica in 2007 to Cold War II by about 2018.