Balaji Srinivasan

Now, in 2025, I would argue basically the Republicans have also unfortunately lost to China.

I'm more sympathetic to Republicans in some ways on this, but the Chinese

Basically, one, in my view, the trade war, the proxy war, and the Cold War.

Why?

They have the world's largest navy.

They have this gigantic manufacturing build-out.

The U.S.

national security strategy basically says that they're withdrawing from East Asia.

And that's a 2025 strategy.

It says it in a way of a fighting retreat where it says, oh, Japan needs to take on more security responsibilities and so on.

But fundamentally, it's very different from the JFK bear any burden, pay any price, defeat communism.

And so the net of it is basically that Republicans have been disrupted in manufacturing military by China.

Democrats have lost on the Internet.

And we're in kind of the mop up phase right now where.

For example, the the last ditch efforts by Republicans to tariff China at best will protect the home American market.

But if you look abroad, you're seeing BYD out competing, even Tesla in neutral markets like Hungary or Uruguay or something like that.

Right.

Even our best guy, Elon, can't beat the Chinese in neutral markets where they're America can impose tariffs.

Conversely, what Democrats are doing is they're trying to have their unions block the use of A.I.

at the Atlantic and the New York Times, right?