Ep. 18: Bruce Jones on Seapower

School of War · Feb 22, 2022 · 53m

Bruce Jones, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, joins the show to discuss seapower.

Times

00:51 - Introduction

01:17 - The importance of seapower today

06:45 - Innovation of container shipping and how that changed the global economy

12:50 - China re-enters the seas

16:54 - China’s security challenges at sea

22:44 - Shallow seas, narrow passages, and massive ships

24:06 - China’s strategic interest in Taiwan

26:10 - China’s alienation of potential allies

29:08 - American strategic view of the Pacific Ocean…