World On The Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

The rise of China over the past few decades has put it on a collision course with America for world primacy with the CCP utilizing it's industrial might & financial leverage over the rest of the world to get it's way.In this episode of Books in 5, the author of World On The Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century joins us to highlight the history of this new Cold War, why Taiwan matters so much and what American leaders can do to ensure it maintains it's edge with regard to innovation & foreign policy.With a keen eye to the past and a thorough understanding of the strengths & weaknesses of the competing worldviews & systems, World on the Brink is a must read as it details the urgency with which the United States and it's allies need to coordinate their response to Beijing's aggressiveness without going over the edge into outright war.Dmitri Alperovitch is a national bestselling author and an internationally recognized thought leader on geopolitics and national security and co-founder and executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think-tank focused on policy solutions in national security, trade and industrial security, and ecological and economic security.He is also the co-founder of the leading cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.Alperovitch serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the Department of Homeland Security and as a founding board member of US Government's Cyber Safety Review Board, and has previously served as a special advisor to the Department of Defense. He has been named in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers and MIT Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35. He is the host of Silverado's Geopolitics Decanted podcast.https://worldonthebrink.com/x: ‪@DAlperovitch‬ https://x.com/DAlperovitch