Ian Bremmer
speaker
4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
Ian Bremmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so again, the J curve used to be this idea that more open societies became more stable because they were open.
but that is facilitated by technology that makes that system work well.
Suddenly, when you have AI driving more stability for a closed system like China, at the very least, you would say that Jay today is a you, that there are no longer structural advantages to the stability of a country by being open if you're technologically empowered.
And if this trend continues, there would be structural advantages to closed systems as opposed to open systems.
It's the opposite of what you want to see.
Well, no faffing around the Middle East.
There's now lots of faffing.
And China's the big threat to now China's the leader that he treats with the greatest respect.
He talks about a G2 with China.
It was a strongly positive summit from China's perspective.
They consider it historic.
They consider it a big win.
It helps to solidify their prestige on the global stage, acting as equals with the United States, which is much bigger, much more powerful.
Trump failed.
On on April 2nd, Liberation Day, he was the intention of the second term was very much a continuation of the first that the Chinese were the big threat.
And he was going to put heavy tariffs on the Chinese whose economy was not performing particularly well.
And that was going to force them to capitulate, force them to bend the knee.
He was wrong.
He failed.
And when they hit back, they hit back hard, not just on reciprocal tariffs, but also then took critical minerals and rare earths, put a gun on the table and said, we will literally shut down your industrial production.
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