Why listen to nine-second sound bites when you can listen to Niall Ferguson, the author of numerous books? This conversation covers the conflict over Taiwan: why it’s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it.
Along the way, Ferguson discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of the United States and Western Europe in both conflicts, and how we can avoid once again living under the threat of nuclear war as we did in Cold War I. He is a prolific writer; of his sixteen-or-more books - click here, ten can be read online at www.archive.org:
- The Cash Nexus
- Civilization : The West and the Rest
- The Pity of War
- Empire ; How Britain Made the Modern World
- The Ascent of Money
- The War of the World
- The Square and the Tower
- 1914 : Why the World Went to War
- Colossus : The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
- The Great Degeneration : How Institutions Decay And Economies Die
There are also numerous talks and discussions on YouTube, of which the talk with Peter Richardson of the Hoover Institution about Cold War II is one of the more frightening. I may have to stop buying green bananas!
