Erik Prince

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

In a lot of cases, they're even exporting Chinese convict labor.

So you got 10 to 20 years of hard labor on your sentence in China.

They send you to do an infrastructure project in Angola.

And when you've completed that job, you're free to stay.

So that has completely changed.

alienated the average African because the Chinese treat them terribly as workers, very abusive.

And that's the one thing about Western capital.

And there's more accountability through Western capital markets, et cetera, and governments that expect Western companies that are operating there to behave.

And there's a court system back in the West to hold them accountable, non-existent in the China-Africa nexus.

What about in Europe?

exceedingly popular yet.

Popular.

Not with the elites.

Look, Europe's been having a free ride for decades on their defense spending.

That's a whole other topic we can dig into.

But you have – when Trump 45 took over, there was I think five of 28 countries that were paying 2% of their defense budgets, 2% of their GDPs in defense.

That's a not serious alliance.

We want alliances, not protectorates.

And that's I think the point that President Trump is making.

Yeah.

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