Superpower showdown
Do China and the US need a ‘red telephone’ to prevent a war?
Australian politicians are being urged to play a more active role in preventing conflict between the world’s two main superpowers.
- Matthew Knott
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After a half-century of diplomatic sparring, the two nations are now openly rivals, seeking dominance in diplomatic clout, economic heft, military might, technology mastery and even climate change reform.
- Eryk Bagshaw and Matthew Knott
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China has long held ambitions to dominate the technologies that will shape the 21st century. It was only when it announced them that the US finally responded.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
If the US went to war with China, who would win? It depends how it starts
If China chose to attack Taiwan, the US could be powerless to stop it. But if China wanted to conquer Taiwan, that’s a different story.
- Chris Zappone and Eryk Bagshaw
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Will China or the United States win the ‘competition to win the 21st century’?
Today on Please Explain, North America correspondent Matt Knott and North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw join Nathanael Cooper to look at the superpowers’ struggle for world domination
- Nathanael Cooper
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Beijing played a good hand as COVID supercharged the China-US image war
Even though the first known COVID-19 outbreak originated in Wuhan, China has leveraged the pandemic to bolster its global reputation.
- Louisa Lim
Richest nation or richest people? Economic supremacy in the balance
Biden says the US is in a competition with China to win the 21st century - but Beijing is on track to beat them.
- Eryk Bagshaw
How to win friends and influence nations: China and the US battle it out
Trump shunned the world. China angered it. Now Beijing and Washington are in a race to gain the greatest diplomatic clout.
- Matthew Knott
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