Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books, including Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and \xa0Kissinger, 1923\u20131968: The Idealist.\xa0In this conversation, we cover the conflict over Taiwan: why it\u2019s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it.