Jordan Schneider
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408 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 May
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sort of economically, culturally, what have you.
Yeah, see, this is the problem with self-reliance is it is expensive.
It is uneconomical to do things because if it wasn't, then your country would already have it.
Right.
So after the disaster of Mao, lots of Chinese leaders made what I think is like the correct strategic decision that, yeah, we are going to need to get more dependent on exports, to get more dependent on sort of foreign technology, because if we're not like, yeah, you can be self-reliant like North Korea and you can be really, really poor.
That is basically the experience that you had in Mao era China where like, yeah, they weren't importing a ton of technology because they were too worried about starving every seven years because of like, you know, terrible.
The sparrows and the locusts and the four plagues and these types of things.
Yeah.
Exactly.
What I think is kind of really interesting is over the past five years, you've seen this mindset start to come home to roost in the West, right?
Like you have EU leaders talking about strategic autonomy.
You have Trump talking about re-industrialization.
And a lot of people, I think, over the past few years have made the argument, oh, like America cutting off chips to China, that's only going to make them like industrialize, you know, build chips faster.
Like, well, we're about to run that experiment in the opposite direction.
Because I think the rare earth stuff has gotten a lot of people very focused and concerned in the West.
And then we're going to have this very fascinating sort of like system competition where like, is the fact that America still like, I guess, kind of a little bit has friends around the world who are also worried about Chinese rare earth export controls.
Like, will that cut against the advantages that the Chinese system has of being able to keep their eye on the ball for a longer period of time and being able to sort of boss companies and countries around?
Like, that's a whole different ballgame.
Well, rerunning the tape of the 20s and 30s, that would be a real phase change, right?
I mean, I think it's somewhere in between, right?
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