PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVII: “Polycrisis” Was Just the New Cold War All the Time!
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Key Insights:
* The global trade network is immensely valuable…
* Friendshoring is not deglobalization, but raher shift-globlization…
* Brad was stupid in 2005 in thinking “passing the baton of hegemony” constructively and progressively was a possibility…
* Countries have no gratitude, and only remember what is convenient…
* William James sought for “the moral equivalent of war” to mobilize civilizational energies for good and progress; and a Cold War certainly counts…
* As Zhou Enlai said on similar issues: “it is too soon to tell”…
* We both hope that America and China will soon be friends again—but the balloon freakout makes us pessimistic…
* Hexapodia!!
References:
* Sophia Ankel: China flew spy balloons over the US while Trump was president, but nobody realized until after he left office, reports say…
* Steve Clemons: 🟡 The red balloon…
* Damon Linker: America the Unserious…
* Noah Smith: China's industrial policy has mostly been a flop…
* Noah Smith: Three books about the technology wars…
* Noah Smith: Friend-shoring vs. "Buy American"…
* Noah Smith: You are now living through Cold War 2…
+, of course:
* Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving_0/mode/1up>
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