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0:00 What triggered Trump’s 100-percent tariff threat?
9:13 How China is mirroring the US playbook
16:52 The real escalation: America’s “50% rule”
25:33 Why has US media coverage been so bad?
28:13 Biden’s role in fueling the trade war
39:44 US China policy as cognitive empathy failure
47:43 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Triolo (Albright Stonebridge Group, https://pstaidecrypted.substack.com/). Recorded October 17, 2025.

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Overtime titles:

0:00 Have more China hawks got their claws into Trump 2.0?
4:55 Where the trade war could (and should) go next
14:25 Bob: We need a Laura Loomer for China
18:32 China-hawkism: Trump vs Biden
23:35 America’s EV gap
26:16 How the US fails to see how China sees Taiwan
33:37 Paul: The coming weeks will be critical

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