Jacob Helberg: The Wires of War | SALT Talks
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Author Jacob Helberg discusses his new book 'The Wires of War' in which he details the existential threat a rising China poses to the United States and the world. Helberg describes the US-China relationship as a gray war and explains how it affects every political decision, from military to commercial. He analyzes China’s President Xi Jinping and details where we’re starting to see internal cracks in the CCP.
From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy.
On the front-end, we’re fighting to control the software-applications, news information, social media platforms, and more-of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we’re also engaged in a hidden back-end battle-largely with China-to control the Internet’s hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks.
This tech-fueled war will shape the world’s balance of power for the coming century as autocracies exploit twenty-first-century methods to re-divide the world into twentieth century-style spheres of influence. Helberg cautions that the spoils of this fight are power over every meaningful aspect of our lives, including our economy, our infrastructure, our national security, and ultimately, our national sovereignty. Without a firm partnership with the government, Silicon Valley is unable to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to sabotage it from Beijing to Moscow and Tehran. The stakes of the ongoing cyberwar are no less than our nation’s capacity to chart its own future, the freedom of our democratic allies, and even the ability of each of us to control our own fates, Helberg says. And time is quickly running out.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:00 - US-China
9:36 - China’s threat
12:54 - Xi Jinping
15:50 - Bipartisan agreement towards China
18:20 - New conceptions of sovereignty
21:01 - Internal tension inside China
24:15 - Western alliances
28:15 - Xi Jinping’s image
31:21 - Chinese culture and cracks in the CCP system
38:36 - Domestic manufacturing and winning the war
47:30 - Combatting disinformation
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38:56 see a war lobbyist gloating on turning an anti war politician into a hawk…yikes
We should be looking at a more balanced view. The US has surrounded China with many military bases with missles pointed at them. Then there are countries such as Iraq and Libya that got destroyed for the wrong reasons. Wouldn't you start building up militarily to defend yourself? A lopsided talk like this put us towards confrontation and risk of a war.
China has the right to defend itself. The issue is the communism conversion of Hong Kong and the coming invasion of Taiwan, which the US has a treaty with. And much more...
Hong Kong is now under national security law and is a lot calmer for most citizens to carry on with their lives. During the so called democracy demonstrations, citizens opposed to riots and civil unrest were beaten up. One elderly was stoned to death and another had gasoline poured on him and almost burnt to death. Hong Kong is not converting to communism but protected by national security laws like the US. Not sure why the US has to defend Taiwan if it doesn't encourage Taiwan to go independent.
@EDC clearly you don't understand freedoms and democracy. It is messy but ultimately much more fulfilling not only for the individual but also for the group.
Chinese Communism must realize eventually that forced order stifles creativity and innovation and the human potential.
Order for the sake of control is not the natural state of a human or human groups and order alone cannot sustain itself.
@@edwardd.484 I would say politics is messy, whether the western democracy or the Chinese socialist system. Forcing one's will or system to another is not true liberalism. I think we should learn from past experience; Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya....just to name a few. Over 90% of the chinese population is happy with their government according to western surveys. I lived in China for two years and I suggest you spend some time there to know the people and then assess your opinion on the country. Understanding the history helps as well to understand how and why China is where it is today.
The ministry of truth guy mis quotes George Orwell 😂 of course he does…
I think China had to do something about the fact that this such important video has only been seen 319 times (as when Oct 13th, 3:47pm PT)
Another warmonger?
Can’t wait for this to begin I would like to know his insights into asymmetric warfare tactics and devices that China is creating to confront the United States for example drone swarms ,plant and animal diseases and yes viruses.