Thought of the Week: August 2021
Is Socialism the Best Way to a Peaceful World?
Week August 2-8
Socialism vs. Capitalism: Debate Between Professors Richard D. Wolff
& Arthur C. Brooks (1:38:44)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwT6qMLjeg
Week August 8-15
The Soviet Union and China: Socialist Brothers in Arms or at War?
The End Of The Sino-Soviet Friendship (43:23 mns.)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azBOK69FirU
Week August 16-22
Vietnam and Cambodia: Socialist Brothers in Arms or at War?
The Third Indochina War
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bkI4Ud6ISg
Week August 23-29
China and Vietnam: Socialist Brothers in Arms or at War?
CHINA vs. VIETNAM: the New Race of the Century
China vs. Vietnam, 1979: Dr. Xiaoming Zhang
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n95Gskrhbw8
(For Recent Thoughts of the Week, see below)
Thought of the Week, July 2021
Will China rule the world in the 21st century?
(Week July 4-10)
What Happens When China Becomes Number One? Kishore Mahbubani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3izbn201s
(Week July 11-17)
The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy | Kishore Mahbubani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Nrgw37If0
(Week July 18-24)
Has China Won? | Kishore Mahbubani | John Mearsheimer | Tom Switzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnkC7GXmLdo
(Week July 25-31)
America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century:
William Wohlforth
https://www.cips-cepi.ca/event/america-abroad-the-united-states-global-role-in-the-21st-century/
Thought of the Week: June 2021
China's Rise: Peaceful or Unpeaceful?
(June 21-30)
China debate: John Mearsheimer vs. Hugh White
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlt1vbnXhQ&t=92s
(June 14-20)
A Realist Perspective: China’s Unpeaceful Rise: By John Mearsheimer | Tom Switzer
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFwKzYI5_4
(June 7-13)
A Liberal Perspective: The Thucydides Trap: Graham Alison
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewnyUJgyA4
(June 1-6)
A Cultural Pluralist Perspective: What Happens When China Becomes Number One? By Kishore Mahbubani
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3izbn201s
Thought of the Week: May 2021
(May 24-30)
Can science make sense of everything?
Atheist and Monotheist Answers
Well, you might change your mind!
The God Delusion Debate: Between two world-renowned scientists
(May 17-23)
Do modern comforts make people happy?
Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts? As society gets richer, people chase the wrong things. By Arthur C. Brooks (2020).
(May 10-16)
Is science the only way to truth and happiness?
Critics of the Enlightenment vision have a point. I am not a postmodernist, but postmodernism offers some insight but with a dead end. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w&t=517s.
My forthcoming book on Peace and Security in Indo-Pacific Asia: IR Perspectives in Context offers a modest critique of postmodernist perspectives.
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