Robert Wright
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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could happen, but if that scenario depends on a particular assumption, I'd like to question the assumption.
And that is the assumption that just kind of broadly speaking, part of China's foreign policy is a desire to impose their form of governments on other countries.
It that is commonly assumed.
There is no evidence of it.
It's it's misleading because the more we sanction uh a bunch of like authoritarian or autocratic countries, the more they get together.
And so it looks like this monolithic uh threat.
And of course, they try to recruit countries to their side, but as a rule, they don't like ask them to become authoritarian or autocratic.
They just allow them, they just
just want them to be part of their economic zone and vote their way in international institutions.
And I think to some extent,
You know, China has, if anything, been notable for its realpolitik.
In other words, like we'll do business with anybody.
We're not trying, we're not trying to turn you into a model of ourselves.
We are hard-nosed business people and we want to do transactions with you, economic, national security, whatever.
But uh we're not trying to turn you into China.
And I think to some extent.
America is projecting its own foreign policy on China.
We do try to turn countries into or into models of ourselves.
In many ways, it's laudable.
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