To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Policy-makers and analysts point to the lack of mutual trust in U.S.-China nuclear relationship as an obstacle for deep cooperation on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation issues. But what does trust mean in their nuclear relationship? Does trust matter for bilateral cooperation on nuclear issues? If so, has any trust been built during their engagement and communication with each other over the past few decades? This presentation offers a preliminary analysis of these issues.
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