The Dangerous Decade: Can America Deter a War with China?

Eyck Freymann, Hoover fellow and author of Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China and Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (with Harry Halem), joins Hoover senior fellow Michael J. Boskin to discuss Taiwan’s importance to American security and the global economy, how China might seek to coerce or seize the island, and whether the United States is ready and capable of deterring its principal adversary in such an event.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, where he directs the Allied Coordination Working Group. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo, and the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.

Dr. Freymann works on strategies to preserve peace and protect U.S. interests and values in an era of systemic competition with China. He is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (Oxford, 2026), The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (Hoover, 2025), and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard, 2021). His scholarly work has appeared in The China Quarterly and is forthcoming in International Security.