Description
Principal and Co-Founder of Marathon Initiative Elbridge Colby and Director of Asia Engagement at Defense Priorities Lyle Goldstein talked about China’s military growth and its implications for the United States.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- CLIP #1: According to Lyle Goldstein, what are China's military capabilities? What is "impressive?"
- CLIP #1: How has China's military "evolved" over time and how does it compare the United States' military, according to Elbridge Colby?
- CLIP #1: Based on the data from the U.S. Department of Defense, how large is China's military?
- CLIP #1: What is Goldstein "less worried" about? Why?
- CLIP #1: How should the United States "treat" China, according to Colby? Why?
- CLIP #2: Summarize Chinese President Xi Jinping's comments, as shown in the clip.
- CLIP #2: How should we "interpret" President Jinping's comments, according to Elbridge Colby? Why?
- CLIP #2: Compare Lyle Goldstein's view of U.S. - China relations with that of Colby's.
- CLIP #2: Why might a war "break out," and what would be "against us" should the United States get involved?
- CLIP #2: According to Colby, what "key thing" should the United States focus on? Why?
- CLIP #2: How might U.S. involvement in the area differ from the country's experiences during World War II, according to Colby?
Additional Resources
- Video Clip: President Biden Meets With Chinese President Xi Jinping
- Video Clip: 118th Congress and the Chinese Communist Party
- Video Clip: U.S. Preparedness for War
- Bell Ringer: The Future of American and Chinese Economic Power
- Bell Ringer: United States-China Relations
- Bell Ringer: China and Economic Development
- Bell Ringer: The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Economy
- Bell Ringer: The Chinese Communist Party and Political Power
Participants
Vocabulary
- Active Duty
- Aircraft Carrier
- Amphibious
- Combat
- Communist
- Congress
- Delegate
- Department Of Defense
- Deterrent
- Hypersonic
- Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
- Labor
- National People's Congress
- Nationalism
- Nuclear Warhead
- Peasant
- Rhetoric
- Sanction
- Semiconductor
- Sovereignty
- Soviet Union
- Taiwan Relations Act (1979)
- Treaty
- United States Strategic Command
- World War Two
- Xi Jinping