Great Power Competition with Richard Danzig

On the second joint episode of Acquisition Talk and ChinaTalk, Richard Danzig, a Secretary of the Navy under Clinton, discusses US-China relations and military innovation. Richard is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins APL, a former Secretary of the Navy, and a fiction guy. We traverse a number of subjects, including:

• How the risk of war with China is reflected in trade policy
• The problems regulators face in high-tech industries
• Views on growing the US Navy to 500 ships
• How US prime contracts differ from state-owned enterprises
• Whether the Chinese are more risk-tolerant than the US

His book recs include:

• Woman of the Dunes
• The Door
• The Lonely Polygamist

Outtro music "LL Cool J" by Ansr J 

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