Ep 127: Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine on the Failed Pivot to Asia

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Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine, authors of Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power, join the show to talk about America’s failed pivot to Asia and why they think it still needs to happen.

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• 01:59 Introduction

• 03:10 Was the pivot serious?

• 07:40 Absent compulsion

• 13:25 War in Europe?

• 22:46 Changes to the plan

• 28:28 A bigger budget

• 32:23 Domestic resistance to TPP

• 38:25 The ultimate goal

• 44:36 Why not regime change in China?

• 51:08 Henry Kissinger

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