David Sacks

Four and a half to five, which is a record low in recent history for them.

Is it imperative for China to continue to extend geopolitical and economic influence around the world to grow its economy?

you know, going back to the framing of the rising power, do they still need to do that to keep people happy at home?

Or is China going to be able to maintain happiness at home in a multipolar world where China and perhaps the US and perhaps some other countries share influence around the world?

Let's shift around to what some have described as the longer-term playing field, which is near the Arctic.

Some have argued that much of the recent push for Greenland by the United States is driven by the military threat coming over the Arctic from Russia and from China.

I'm wondering if you could just help frame for our audience, why is Greenland so strategic to the United States?

And is this effectively a proxy for defense against China and Russia?

And why now?

Let me push back just on that point.

What I have heard is that there's rising socialism in Western Europe, growing concern that over time, as socialism becomes more of the mainstay in the governing models in Western European nations, those nations fall more under the influence of China.

And as a result, if you think about the influence that China could then have on Denmark and on Danish foreign policy, if the United States doesn't secure what it needs for the long term, and it may not know what it needs for the long term physically in Greenland today, we only know what we need today, that we're at risk of China having outsized influence over Greenland tomorrow.

And that that's the real reason for the big push today

for Greenland.

How does that sit with you?

And does that align kind of with what some folks are concerned about?

Because you can't make money because the taxes are so high.

So, Dr. Allison, just to kind of wrap our tour of the world here, come back to the United States.

Since we last spoke, there have been a number of mayors elected in this country that are self-declared socialists or democratic socialists of America, PSA.

And there's a rising populist movement in the United States that seems to be manifesting in many cases, candidates that look and act like true deep socialists and want to enact socialist policies.