Graham Allison

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Graham Allison on the Global Realignment: Iran, China, Israel, Greenland · 9 Mar 2026 podcast

If you take a snapshot of the year 2000 and the year 2025 and compare China on any metric of power, it's just dumbfounding, dumbfounding.

So a country that I have compared it to kind of like a Formula One racing, a country that we couldn't find in our rearview mirror,

In 2020, I'll show you 2000, because it was so far behind, we have trouble finding in our river mirror today because it's beside us or in many races, even slightly ahead of us.

So that's GDP.

It was less than 5% of global GDP.

or it was less than a quarter the US in 2000.

Today, by purchasing power parity, it's 25% larger.

In 2000, trading, it was 5% of global.

Today, and we were 15, today it's 35 and we're 25.

If you do advanced tech in any arena, take 5G, my goodness, take EVs, my goodness, take whatever.

So rapidly rising power.

That's essential.

That's the infrastructure for their grand narrative, which is the inexorable rise of China to its natural position in the international order, which they think is at the top of the pyramid.

So they are absolutely determined to be number one in their own arena to begin with.

And then after that, you know, maybe more.

And they also, they have a second, the second proposition is,

there's the inexorable decline of the U.S.

And they look at the various parts of the U.S.

and the components, including getting involved in unnecessary wars as part of that story, that part of their narrative.

And that dynamic, the shifting of the seesaw,

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