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Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
- ▶ 4:16 Scott Bessent Early, early 2000, letting China into the global trading system, that they would become more like us.
- ▶ 7:39 Scott Bessent When he ratcheted up some of the tariff levels to 35, 49, 50%, even 145 with the Chinese, it brings people to the table. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:31 David Sacks Has China disappeared?
- ▶ 46:49 Scott Bessent When, when you have competitors, whether they're China, China, Vietnam, some others, uh, sometimes in, in Europe that have high subsidies, then like the, this idea that perfect Ricardian equivalents exists doesn't. 3 times in the scene
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 3:27 Jason Calacanis You have framed the AI debate as we can't lose to China. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:47 Jason Calacanis And then there, is there an issue where the China, beating China doesn't resonate with the American populace you've been harping on about the rise of socialism for four plus years on this very podcast.
- ▶ 12:33 Jason Calacanis And, you know, as I said last week, I think beating China does not matter to the average American. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:36 David Sacks And you really see this actually in the relative popularity of AI in the United States versus China. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:44 Chamath Palihapitiya We're trying to build a battery business in the United States so that we can de-lever from the Chinese.
- ▶ 59:56 Jason Calacanis Alright, according to a Reuters report, Freeburg, China has built a prototype of ASML's EUV machine. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:04 David Friedberg That's not really the full scope of what's been going on in China for a number of years. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:23 Jason Calacanis And China and the relationship with Taiwan seems to be, and, and the possibility that they actually take over Taiwan in a military fashion has been this existential concern or even short-term concern. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:37 David Friedberg So what's been going on is scientists in China, they're very smart people. 7 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- ▶ 16:33 Chamath Palihapitiya If you think about doing a deal where you're in China and that other asset is in China, it can slow down for a very, very, very long time and never happen for reasons that have nothing to do with the industrial logic of the merger. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:46 Jason Calacanis But we've got the Russians, we've got the Chinese, everybody in between doing this kind of pumping, and then there is the actual army.
- ▶ 51:53 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think right now, steady state, it's going to be China and America, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:53 Jason Calacanis You will be wrong, because you'll see taxi drivers are going to be the first group to do it, and it's already happening in different places in the world, as I mentioned, in China, and it's already starting to happen in places like San…
OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- ▶ 5:34 David Friedberg It is how we are now in a race for supremacy in technology and AI against China.
- ▶ 9:44 unnamed speaker What does it say about us versus China, Saks? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Jason Calacanis Deep seek, et cetera, Saks in China.
- ▶ 48:50 David Sacks During the dinner, Sachs heard a convincing counterargument that selling American chips to rivals, including China, would get those nations hooked on U.S. tech.
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 40:48 David Friedberg The other black swan that I think is missing in the equation today, and I, my, my early prediction for 20, 26 is Huawei, um, where I think that there's a lithography technology that exists in China that is not publicly discussed. 2 times in the scene
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 18:06 Brad Gerstner China has a hundred nuclear fission plants under construction, and we were sitting on our hands, so I think, if anything, they've helped jumpstart that conversation and get us moving faster, and I think that's good for all of us.
- ▶ 18:23 Jason Calacanis China is going to win the AI race. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 Brad Gerstner In China, they're not going to slow down. 3 times in the scene
AI, Attention, and Ownership: Ari Emanuel Explains the Next Era of Entertainment
- ▶ 23:35 Jason Calacanis Obviously, India and China, huge markets.
Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower
- ▶ 14:19 Tareq Amin So that's where I think Saudi Arabia has a big role to, uh, to participate, and I was bullish enough to tell the world, I said, outside of the United States, outside of China, I really think Saudi Arabia has a good shot to be the third…
- ▶ 21:42 David Friedberg Tarik, as you are building your infrastructure, there's supply chain and strategic partnerships and relationships that I'm sure emerge here in the United States, but also in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:30 David Sacks Is that going to be American technology or Chinese technology? 4 times in the scene
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
- ▶ 50:34 Elon Musk I mean, the, the best open source models right now, actually, ironically, because fate, fate seems to be an irony maximizer, um, uh, the best open source models are generally from China.
- ▶ 1:17:18 Elon Musk Yeah, I mean, by the way, there are actually massive disincentives for solar because the, because China, China is a massive producer of solar panels. 6 times in the scene
Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- ▶ 12:39 Pete Buttigieg I'll just admit that because just buying them off the shelf from China would be dramatically quicker.
- ▶ 59:55 Chamath Palihapitiya These diffusion rules, the gatekeeping, all of those things, Pete, would have seen us lose to China.
The Woman Who BEAT Maduro: Venezuela's Next Leader? Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado
- ▶ 26:53 unnamed speaker And what about China? 7 times in the scene
Nobel Prize in Physics Winner: The Quantum Leap That Changed Everything - John Martinis
- ▶ 40:57 unnamed speaker What is your view on China and the progress that they're making in this technology versus the U.S.? 6 times in the scene
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 1:03:11 Jason Calacanis Pipper found that OpenAIs, GPT-FORO, favorite people from Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Brazil, and China over those from Germany, the UK, and US relative to Japan as a baseline.
Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House
- ▶ 1:05:00 Joe Manchin I thought he was going to talk about China, about North Korea, about Iran, on and on and on.
California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
- ▶ 5:04 Jan Sramek There's been a lot of talk about China here today and on-shoring manufacturing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 Jan Sramek Just as one example, Zhongjing Island shipyard in China built more ships last year than we have built collectively in the United States since the end of the Second World War. 2 times in the scene
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 11:42 David Sacks Remember when president, she came to town from China for that summit.
- ▶ 20:49 Jason Calacanis The U S China trade battle. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 Jason Calacanis Friedberg, thoughts on price controls generally, and if you want to expand into the overall relationship with China as it relates to rare earth metals, go for it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 David Sacks What's basically happened, like Freeburg was saying, China has been allowed to dominate this industry. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Chamath Palihapitiya But as Sak said, if all of a sudden China sees it, what they do is they enter the market, and they will dump an enormous volume of that product into the spot market. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:37 David Friedberg But there are techniques now that can be applied that can do this in a kind of scalable, safer way without any of the environmental hazards, but this is largely why this shifted over to China, is they didn't have the sort of regulatory,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:54 David Sacks I think the reason why you want to have the leaders meet President Trump and President Xi is that I think that this relationship, this bilateral relationship between the US and China will work best when there's an agreement at the top. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 David Friedberg The US or China? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:49 Chamath Palihapitiya I don't think China is a rising power. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Otherwise, locally in the United States, the only winners are going to be lawyers, and then we're going to create an own goal and China's going to win.
Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
- ▶ 10:33 Brad Gerstner China, AI, re-industrialization, India, Pakistan, Ukraine, you know, and Russia, what he's doing in the Middle East. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:16 Jason Calacanis So also China seems to be flipping into gold too. 4 times in the scene
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 9:04 Jason Calacanis We're talking a bit about the relationship between America and China. 8 times in the scene
Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
- ▶ 7:54 Chamath Palihapitiya There was a phase, I guess, in the, maybe the early 2010, where it was a lot of, it felt like tremendous freewheeling capitalism in China, where there was just a, just a Cambrian explosion of incredible entrepreneurs, yourself and Jack and…
- ▶ 10:11 Jason Calacanis On a geopolitical level, it seems to be the rhetoric in the United States, what they keep drilling into Americans is to look at China as an existential threat to America, that we're rivals, that we cannot operate and lead the world to… 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Jason Calacanis What is your take on America and China succeeding together? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:06 Joe Tsai But, you know, I, I think if you look at China, a couple things are going on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:19 Jason Calacanis So we're talking to Dara on the last panel on how China is a bit different and how it looks at autonomy, self-driving. 7 times in the scene
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 45:49 Jason Calacanis What are your thoughts here on the continued execution of the Chinese government with DeepSeat? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:09 David Sacks The data's not going back to China. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:03 David Sacks And a single federal standard is the best way to make sure that we do not have woke AI, that we do not have insanely burdensome regulations that allow China to basically get ahead of us in this AI race.
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
- ▶ 4:01 Ro Khanna I was just in China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:36 Ro Khanna To China or, or to, to India.
- ▶ 8:06 Ro Khanna I, someone comes, 600,000 students come from, uh, 300,000 from China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Chamath Palihapitiya Refer to it in the spirit of Chinese Tai Chi. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Ro Khanna And the only thing I'd say about China is while they're formidable, the one statistic that made me think we've got a lot of things right here that they haven't, 20% youth unemployment in China. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:16 Ro Khanna How do we, uh, deal with our competitiveness with China and other nations?
Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI: Nvidia Lessons, Intel’s Decline and the US-China Chip War
- ▶ 10:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Does that give you a different perspective on things like export controls and export restrictions and the role that China plays in this ecosystem? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:56 Rene Haas So we had that, uh, ultimately for cost reasons that began to move all the way to, uh, to the Far East and to Foxconn in China, et cetera, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 David Sacks And the irony is that the people who are advocating for these things call themselves China hawks, but 6 times in the scene
Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
- ▶ 1:03:10 David Friedberg Um, and then, uh, there have been a Meituan, I think, out of China. 2 times in the scene
Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing
- ▶ 5:19 Chamath Palihapitiya There is a very active gray market, particularly in China, peptide synthesis that are producing drugs that are basically the equivalent of your drug.
- ▶ 12:17 Dave Ricks And unless some Chinese state-owned enterprise gets in this business, it'll be very hard for others to build that out and follow.
- ▶ 13:54 Dave Ricks And then you have China, which is the other factor, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:14 David Friedberg Can you talk about the patent issue there, the patent and IP issue, so in the US, you know, when we make a filing and what goes on with respect to China? 5 times in the scene
H-1B Shakeup, Kimmel Apology, Autism Causes, California Hate Speech Law
- ▶ 15:29 David Friedberg The majority of papers today across nearly every scientific domain are being published out of China, and this ranges from physics to chemistry to material science to biotech, and there's a real case to be made that perhaps those scientists… 5 times in the scene
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- ▶ 3:19 Eric Schmidt And you're, remember, we're up against the Chinese. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 David Sacks So, uh, but, uh, but we are in this high-tech competition with China. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Maybe David asked about the China question, but it's, they're all kind of almost interrelated.
- ▶ 20:36 Eric Schmidt The, um, the Chinese number is about one point oh for two parents.
- ▶ 22:23 David Sacks And you saw things like we got to restrict open source because, you know, then China will get it.
Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
- ▶ 50:29 Jason Calacanis And, uh, Trump said that was gonna happen as part of the US and China.
- ▶ 55:34 Jason Calacanis So the Chinese have given it up.
- ▶ 1:17:23 Jason Calacanis I really enjoyed having Joe Tsai there and talking about the China and America relationship not being, uh, one in which, you know, we have to go down a prescribed route, that there could be off ramps and there could be collaboration there.
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 1:23 Anatoly Yakovenko So if you kind of look at those charts, who owns treasuries, and be with China, Japan, et cetera, countries, right now I think tethers,
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on self-driving's future, changing business model, job displacement
- ▶ 1:34 Dara Khosrowshahi Autonomy in China is 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:56 Jason Calacanis Um, in China, in Wuhan, in fact, there's been a lot of civil unrest, and they're talking about limiting the number of licenses for self-driving cars because of the disruption that would happen if young men who have those jobs are not able… 2 times in the scene
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 6:27 Donald J. Trump When a dignitary, a big dignitary, the head of China, the head of any country your name would come over, they would, ah, build a tent in the lawn, and if it rained, it was a big problem.
Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies
- ▶ 38:56 Chamath Palihapitiya The, the historical context of this is, you know, if you, if you look back at what happened with Britain and China in the 1800, there was a period where, you know, Britain wanted to desperately weaken the Chinese. 5 times in the scene
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
- ▶ 19:52 Alex Karp We never worked with China.
- ▶ 31:53 unnamed speaker Alex, can I ask you about China for 1:02?
- ▶ 32:06 unnamed speaker The precursors are still coming in very aggressively from China, and so I'm just curious, um, what is the geopolitical frame that we need to think about China in? 6 times in the scene
Nasdaq CEO Reveals the Next Era Of The Stock Market - Adena Friedman | All-In Summit
- ▶ 20:50 David Friedberg Obviously China's selling down treasuries.
The Hidden Truth About the US Energy Grid: Subsidies, Demand & Rising Prices - Chris Wright
- ▶ 3:29 David Friedberg Sorry, but let me just make one, what is China doing differently? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:32 Jason Calacanis Let me, um, ask you a little bit about China. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Chris Wright It's, we, we don't want to be cute like China. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:52 Chamath Palihapitiya Let me show this little nuclear chart going up into the right for China. 3 times in the scene
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 22:39 Chamath Palihapitiya The couple days before, and the president tweeted about this, Nick, I sent that to you, but you have India, Russia, and China kind of like fraternizing, and then one or two days later, the president convenes this dinner of, I think, you…
- ▶ 29:06 Jason Calacanis The president can get involved with tariffs, and they cited the 47th administration fentanyl crisis at the borders, Mexico, Canada, China, et cetera, and the trade deficits.
- ▶ 35:22 Chamath Palihapitiya So to D lever away from China for the battery supply chain.
Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
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