Sam Chetwin George
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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And I think the Chinese had been prepared for it and planned for it.
Because as I said earlier, this period of cooperation with within the American-led system was by design temporary, in my opinion.
And so as the situation has changed, as the strategic context
context has evolved.
China has moved the twenty twenty COVID experience and then the trade war led to this.
what some people call the fortress economy, the push towards self-sufficiency.
And so there's been an incremental move towards a focus on strength and a focus on building China into the leader of a new system that's more beneficial to it.
I think the Trump administration has catalyzed that change and also made necessary some of these considerations about the
and protection of overseas interests, just given how much chaos has been unleashed on the world.
It's not a question I think I can answer definitively, but what I can say is that China's restrained in its capabilities and its resources at the moment.
And so this this will have to happen according to quite a strict ordering of hierarchies.
They have, you know, they have two officially confirmed overseas military bases.
America has something like 750.
And China the way China thinks about its situation, the world is
also very different from America.
I think they're jealous of America's geographical blessings because China, it's a continental power.
It's got 14 bordering states.
And the Americans have a real well, until recently, a relatively docile Canadian population to the north and then the Mexicans to the south.
China doesn't have the benefit of the Atlantic moat, the Pacific moat.
much more complicated.
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