Jeffrey Sachs

By the way, people will be very surprised to hear me say it, and they'll doubt it, and they won't believe it, but China has...

among the most deliberative processes that I see in any government in the world, because we portray Xi Jinping as the leader who decides everything.

I was just in Beijing a couple of weeks ago, and they've just announced a very, very sophisticated economic program.

And I spoke to many people that were part of it,

It was two years of detailed deliberation over cutting edge sectors and what to do and how to combine public and private initiatives.

Very sophisticated.

We don't have that right now.

So this is quite strange.

We have one, uh, overwhelming delusion that is held, uh, firmly by a president who has his own personal delusions.

And that is that America reigns supreme in the world.

And every day when president Trump says we are the most powerful, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, in the history of the world, this is, uh,

Of course, he feels good saying this.

Of course, maybe his followers feel good saying this.

But it's completely, totally the wrong approach to our world right now.

The serious part of our world is...

The world faces many deep challenges.

There are many nuclear armed countries.

There are many powerful countries.

We need to find a way to get along, to understand each other, to cooperate, to solve problems, and to avoid the traps of a war that can destroy the world economy or even the world in a short period of time.

so all the bluster is a remnant of the idea that the u.s has pursued during its imperial era since world war ii that we should run the world and trump has a particular view of that which is that he should run the world and so