Robert Farley & Taylor Fravel [Foreign Entanglements]
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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics
On Foreign Entanglements, Rob speaks with Taylor about the current state of Chinese politics. Taylor explains the scandalous Bo Xilai affair (01:05), and Rob wonders whether there’s a crisis of civil-military relations (05:52) in China. Taylor lays out the situation in the South China Sea (14:13) and discusses China’s “salami slicing” strategy (22:01). Rob and Taylor analyze the potentially destabilizing effects of AirSea Battle (27:29). Is it crazy for the US to prepare for the possibility of war with China (36:46)? They conclude with a conversation about how the Chinese view the US election (44:44). Robert Farley (Lawyers, Guns and Money, University of Kentucky) and Taylor Fravel (MIT) Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/10343 Recorded on August 08, 2012 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Follow our RSS feed: https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/feed?format=audio
