Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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And the rising power is deeply unhappy about that and challenging, challenging, challenging.
And most of the time, historically, it leads to war, right?
That was the Chinese narrative.
And my counter to that was,
First of all, is that Xi Jinping should not want to be perceived in the United States as the person that is saying that the U.S.
is in decline.
Because if he comes to Washington in September and does that, he's going to get hammered.
It's going to be very different than the coverage he gets when he says it in Beijing.
It's going to be 100 times every focus.
This is what he's saying to Americans, that we're in decline.
Screw that guy, right?
So number one, he shouldn't want to do that.
But also, it is manifestly untrue that over the past 20, 30 years, the big structural changes in the world in terms of power is China's rising, the United States is not in decline, but American allies are declining.
And they are declining because their productivity is down, their growth is down, their demographics are contracting, they're not investing in defense, they're not investing in technology.
Now...
There has been a stat that's been bandied around recently that shows that even Mississippi has higher per capita income than every European country.
And that is true, but you would not necessarily be happy or better taken care of as a citizen in Mississippi than you would be in lots of European states.
Why?
Because the social contract in Europe actually takes care of a lot more people.
And you see this in terms of health care and you see this in terms of policing.
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