Graham Allison: Is war between China and the US inevitable?
Грахам Аллисон: Қаламаған қақтығыс: Қытай мен АҚШ
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for the opportunity to talk about
of your professional lifetime,
international challenge
for as far as the eye can see.
is the rise of China.
risen so far so fast,
түрлі жақта бірдей
of China's rise --
this will cause the Unites States
the principal architect and guardian.
historians now call an "American Century."
"АҚШ ғасыры".
accustomed to their place
әдеттеніп қалды,
as the US -- or bigger --
as an assault on who they are.
we're now seeing in this rivalry,
on the larger map of history.
threatened to displace a ruling power.
to mark the 100th anniversary
соғысты тойлаймыз,
that became so encompassing,
an entirely new category: world war.
"Дүниежүзілік соғыс".
is a sophisticated audience,
on the impact of China's rise,
over many years,
it's useful to take a short pause,
тыныстап алуға,
on the same page.
ungraded, of course.
on its march to the market.
of China's one billion citizens
on less than two dollars a day?
on less than two dollars a day.
that within the next three years,
үш жылда
will have been raised up
in our lifetime.
on any of the international league tables
surpass -- the United States.
кей салада басып озды.
that will shape our world:
immovable ruling US,
the grandest collision in history.
around this challenge,
to a great thinker,
consequential question.
have trouble pronouncing it.
two, three, together:
of the Peloponnesian War,"
you can tweet your friends,
his name: Thucydides."
that destroyed classical Greece,
and the fear that this instilled in Sparta
ойлап таптым.
I coined several years ago,
dynamic that occurs
to displace a ruling power,
or China today --
Германия, бүгінгі Қытай,
or the US today.
бүгін АҚШ-қа.
of Thucydides's Trap in your head,
the news and noise of the day
about our world today:
in the footsteps of history?
of imagination and common sense
news story pops up for you
or the US reacting like that,
understanding of what's going on
the pyramid of poverty,
I think, put it best.
we haven't yet had time to be astonished."
how astonished I should be,
in my office in Cambridge
across the Charles River,
and Harvard Business School.
they were going to renovate this bridge,
it would take one more year.
тағы бір жыл кетеді деді.
when it's going to be finished.
three times over budget.
that I drove across last month in Beijing.
they wanted to renovate that bridge.
lanes of traffic.
екі есе көп еді.
to complete the project?
that couldn't happen in New York.
is a purpose-driven leader
and most competent leader
is Chinese President Xi Jinping.
дәурендеп тұр.
about what he wants.
president six years ago,
Donald Trump picked up a version of this.
specific targets for specific dates:
the dominant power
технология базарында
in 10 leading technologies,
quantum computing.
the innovation leader
the 100th anniversary
unambiguously number one,
an army that he calls "Fight and Win."
but as you can see,
көрінсе де,
how fast our world is changing.
yet even been invented.
of this rise of China most directly?
and stronger and richer,
American positions and prerogatives.
like me; I'm from North Carolina --
that's who we are.
brute facts are hard to ignore.
asked me to testify about this
that you can see,
of a seesaw on a playground,
of their economy.
China was just half our size.
АҚШ жартысы.
АҚШ-пен теңесті.
by 2024, it will be half again larger.
will be felt everywhere.
trade conflict,
the number one trading partner
to our Greek historian.
has reviewed the last 500 years of history
is that in very few of these
by either the rising power
a third party's provocation
they don't want to go.
мәжбүрлейді.
of a second-level figure,
the Austro-Hungarian emperor
all of Europe was at war.
planet Earth today.
ол таба ала ма?
leading man for the ruling power
power than Xi Jinping?
of more colorful provocateur
to play his assigned part
with the most consequential question,
the gravest consequences
the forces of history drive us to a war
the imagination and courage
in the 21st century,
a new form of great power relations?
pursuing passionately
and, indeed, to listen
the relevant governments --
of both the arts and business.
are increasingly aware
nobody has a feasible plan
that we need some ideas
of conventional state graph --
or another space --
of the most creative minds on the planet,
the world we have,
and as you reflect on it,
some bold ideas, actually some wild ideas,
a difference in this space.
right after World War II.
and Europeans and others,
the world of culture and business,
surge of imagination.
and what they created
to live our lives, all of our lives,
than was ever seen before on the planet.
project that produced these results,
policy establishment
Americans felt exhausted.
an urgent domestic agenda.
how devastated Europe was
to tax themselves
every year for four years
to help reconstruct these countries,
been killing Americans.
Америкалықтарды өлтірген еді.
for peace and prosperity.
to do is do it again.
of imagination, creativity,
Santayana reminded us,
who refuse to study history
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Graham Allison - Political scientist, professorGraham Allison is a leading analyst of US national security and defense policy with a special interest in China, nuclear weapons and decision-making.
Why you should listen
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and the best-selling author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, he has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense and advised the Secretaries of Defense under every president from Reagan to Obama.
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