Foreign Relations & International Law

ChinaTalk: U.S.-China Ideological Competitio‪n‬

Jordan Schneider
Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 8:47 AM

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Are the U.S. and China in ideological competition? How does one go about answering that question? Dan Tobin of the U.S. Intelligence Community's National Intelligence University and Ryan Manuel of Official China have a dangerous amount of fun debating guiding ideologies and what they mean for geopolitics.

Dan's 2020 congressional testimony on CCP ideology:

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/testimonies/SFR%20for%20USCC%20TobinD%2020200313.pdf

Ryan's PhD thesis on CCP bureaucracy (which really is fantastic, chapter 3 is an absolute must-read):

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:84ec884b-9bd7-46d7-a395-f6bf9ba501e0/download_file?safe_filename=RManuel%2BDPhil%2BFINAL.pdf&file_format=application%2Fpdf&type_of_work=Thesis

This episode was recorded in late 2020.

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