Matt Pottinger, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Chairman of FDD’s China Program, and author of The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about how a war over Taiwan might start and how it may be prevented.▪️Times     •      01:13 Introduction     •      03:11 The Boiling Moat    •      04:54 Is Xi serious?    •      11:35 How to deter China     •      17:40 Out with the old, in with the new    •      24:30 Mapping the scenarios    •      30:14 No such thing as an accidental war    •      35:44 A cognitive trap    •      39:22 Left with no choiceFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack