Erik Prince

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The Shawn Ryan Show · #209 Erik Prince & Erik Bethel - The China / Taiwan Conflict · 16 Jun 2025 podcast

Yep.

And the Communist Youth League.

Both the Shanghai faction and the Youth League have been smashed by his anti-corruption campaign to really consolidate control.

Yeah, if you don't behave exactly as the Xi Jinping thought specifies, you get banned from public transportation or from going to the school you want to or getting the housing that you want.

You literally have no rights.

And it is when we see elements of this in woke culture in America with being canceled for speaking out on social media or whatever, right?

They've perfected it at industrial scale in China.

If you're in a rural highway, they're timing the distances between two points, and they will flash on the board, on a board alongside the road, your license plate, your name, that you're speeding, also being deducted.

So for people to say there's a fundamental difference in governance between a constitutional republic that we live in, where we're supposed to have rights, where the government mandate is limited to that and the consent of the governed, it is the exact opposite in China.

So yes, it is a...

fundamental difference in governance between a state that has total, unbelievable, unequivocal control over not citizens, but the serfs that reside there versus citizens.

And a republic might be dirty and messy and imperfect and deficient,

but at least you have rights.

Yeah, no kidding.

Why do you think that?

As long as we allow the private sector to do what it does best.

Because if it's all government all the time, that it's going to be our solution in America, we're screwed.

Entrepreneurship is by definition the creative destruction of the old order.

And if we get away from that, then we have a also ran version of statism where you get the great leap forward and that kind of stupidity.

And imagine a nationwide, imagine 50 million people starving to death in America.

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