In this special episode, we sat down with Michael Sekora, founding director of the Socrates Project within the Reagan White House. In part one of this special series, we’ll explore what the Socrates Project was, what lessons we can glean from the Reagan era, and how the Chinese regime was able to achieve a fast rise on the global stage.
Sekora noted: “One of the differences between China and the United States … is that what their objective is—their national objective—is something which they believe in as a long-term objective. So even if there’s a minor downturn in the economy, they’ll continue pushing the objective of becoming the dominant superpower. In the United States, as we change administrations, slogans change, things like that come and go. It’s not going to change in terms of China. So as we continue to decline, China may hit a couple of bumps, but I don’t see them pulling away from their main national objective, which is very detrimental to the United States.”…