“New Cold Wars? China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and the Future of US Leadership” A conversation with David Sanger

On 12 August 2024, the Centre for Strategic Studies director David Capie talked to David Sanger about China's rise, Russia's invasion and the future of US leade

Monday 12 August 2024

The NZ-US Council and Centre for Strategic Studies hosted David Sanger. In this event, David talked with Professor David Capie about his book, about hot and cold wars in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, and about the future of American leadership.

The United States, China and Russia are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides. Yet all three great powers are discovering that they are manoeuvring for influence in a far more turbulent and complex world than they imagined. Was the invasion of Ukraine a grave Russian miscalculation or will the West’s support for Kyiv eventually falter? What are the risks of conflict in the Taiwan Strait or the South China Sea? And with wars raging in the Middle East and a critical presidential election just months away, can a polarized United States still provide global leadership?

David Sanger is White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, and has a front row seat to this new era of strategic competition. His recent book New Cold Wars draws on interviews with top officials from five US presidential administrations, intelligence agencies, foreign governments and tech companies. It has been described as a “must read” and “painstakingly researched”.