Ian Bremmer
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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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You can fix these things.
We're doing it with critical minerals right now, late, but the Americans are now saying, okay, well, now we need to start investing.
The
We'll do it in the US, we'll do it in Chile, in Brazil, anywhere around the world that we can find the critical minerals we're gonna go in.
And by the way, the fact that the Chinese have put that loaded gun on the table, once you do that, you can't do it twice.
So now we've seen, oh, they've got this leverage, that's dangerous, we'll invest.
And within five to 10 years,
they will no longer have that key chokehold over the United States in all of these minerals that we need.
And we need for, by the way, for our defense capabilities.
So the Chinese, if they were ever to get into a fight with us, the first thing they would do is shut that down because it would strangle our ability to continue to build the military industrial complex.
You're not gonna fight a war effectively.
People worry about Taiwan.
If there were a fight like that, you'd be very vulnerable given all of that.
The same thing will happen
on energy, but the longer we wait for it to happen, the greater the Chinese lead.
And right now we're digging a hole for ourselves by investing as much as we can in the energy technologies that are not getting cheaper at scale and politically saying that we oppose the technologies of the future that will be essential for growth of our populations and essential most importantly for AI compute.
Well, that argument, the second argument you just made, was a reasonable argument before the Biden administration starts putting all the export controls on.
Once you've done that and you've shown the Chinese
you've got to invest in your own semiconductors because we will crush you, then they do it.
It's just like when the Chinese say, we're gonna force you to have licenses for rare earths.
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