Meeting with Peter Thiel, Mike Pompei, and Robert C. O'Brien(Ambassador) at the The Richard Nixon Foundation. Peter discusses about the semiconductor history of Silicon Valley, what Bitcoin means for China and US. Mike Pompei also has interesting thoughts about the bilateral relations. He advises that American companies should be aware of sharing their products and IP with China.

Chapters
0:00:00 Start
0:00:28 Introduction
0:00:54 The Chinese Communist Party vs The West
0:02:33 How much technology has China created or stolen
0:02:55 Google's Project Maven & China
0:03:43 China's rapid military product design vs The Pentagons slow procurement
0:06:30 More Chinese students study in the US than vice versa
0:07:53 How to avoid information infiltration as an "open-country"
0:09:16 How to stay ahead in Quantum & AI
0:12:00 Why did it take us so long to wake up on the threat of China? (Tiananmen)
0:14:30 Do we currently have a model of what is going on in China?
0:15:08 Xi Jinping has absolute power
0:15:30 Semiconductor history
0:16:18 What happens when Taiwan Semiconductors or Samsung are coerced by China?
0:17:16 You can think of Taiwan as one company
0:17:49 Stagnation in Semiconductors in Silicon Valley
0:19:50 What is the alternative to Hauwei, is 5G overrated?
0:21:54 How low-income countries are forced into debt by China
0:21:51 The space race with Russia & China
0:25:00 Q&A Panel
0:25:58 Sino–American IP and Venture Wars
0:34:31 Does China have a technical advantage
0:35:48 How to improve technology adoption at the Pentagon
0:38:38 Bitcoin as a Chinese Financial Weapon Against the USD
0:43:00 Total Surveillance
0:46:00 US investing in R&D
1:06:30 How Zero-to-One Competition Theory can apply to foreign policy
1:09:01 How do you see Tik-Tok (Multilateralism)
1:13:00 China Infiltrating organisations like WHO
1:18:10 How can US compete with China
1:19:20 Are you optimistic?
1:21:50 Should the world descend on Beijing?
1:03:33 Competitive advantage of the Pentagon
1:24:38 How do we benchmark US progress in AI against China?
1:29:32 Closing remarks

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