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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 5:59 Rahm Emanuel They have more cases, WTO cases, than any other country, and all of them combined are against China.
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 9:27 Chamath Palihapitiya And it was shocking to anybody reading it, because what we saw was that they guided to a range of four and a half to five percent, which if you look at the historical context of that growth, is the lowest that it has ever been in about 30…
Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
- ▶ 25:14 David Sacks The rare earth processing as a very strategic element in the supply chain, and they set out to dominate it, and they did that by massively subsidizing their businesses and driving all of the US competitors and the global competitors out of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:28 David Sacks And the shame of it is that when we were running all the key institutions during the unipolar moment, like the WTO, we engage in so many foolish policies that allow China to dominate rare earths.
- ▶ 47:06 David Friedberg But at the time, just remember, like when, when they were admitted to the WTO and the motivation was really about lowering the cost of goods and services for the American consumer, which was like an intrinsically reasonable motivation.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Great Companies Are Built
- ▶ 9:42 Roelof Botha China had gained admission to the World Trade Organization in, I think, 2001.
Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
- ▶ 20:16 Chris Power It started with Nixon opening up China, led them into the WTO, they were the world's factory.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:21:06 David Sacks And I don't think it was a free market because they had all these advantages under the WTO that we talked about in a previous podcast. 2 times in the scene
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 58:40 Aaron Levie Like, well, don't go down the WTO rat hole. 2 times in the scene
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 12:08 David Sacks You know, I flagged this in a previous episode that we did with Larry Summers, where I said that 25 years ago it was a huge mistake to walk China into the WTO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:37 David Sacks Like I talked about, these WTO rules gave China the opportunity to strategically annihilate our core industries that are critical in the supply chain. 2 times in the scene
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 23:26 David Sacks In the heartland, because we let China into the WTO, which is something that Larry, I think, supported and championed.
- ▶ 23:42 David Sacks You were Treasury Secretary when we walked China into the WTO, and you were just still defending it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:55 Chamath Palihapitiya Prior to the WTO, China imposed a bunch of export duties and taxes on a whole bunch of goods to control outflow. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:20 David Sacks He said that signing PNTR and bringing China to the WTO would promote democracy in China, that we would export one of democracy's most cherished values, economic freedom. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:56 Larry Summers That it was before there was any WTO agreement. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:26 Ezra Klein Could we agree that whether or not it was the WTO move?
- ▶ 1:22:43 Ezra Klein Fukuyama is a great sort of related concept of Votocracy, which is that, but he also got another great concept since we're bringing up Fukuyama, which is that neoliberalism, which we've sort of been talking about here with the WT and other…
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 55:59 Antonio Gracias And for decades, part of the problem we've had with China is that capital's free, because the banking system just pushes money out to manufacturers, and they move the manufacturing because the WTO from the U.S. to China.
Ray Dalio: US Debt Spiral, How to Avoid Disaster | The All-In Interview
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 31:49 Jeffrey Sachs China, and then on the economic side, let me just reiterate, because I was asked yesterday, and there was some surprise, was it good to let China into the, the WTO?
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 10:33 Chamath Palihapitiya What happened in the late nineties, I guess it started with Clinton, where it seemed like a good idea to admit to the WTO and then Bush kind of just, you know, put the nail in the coffin and did it and actually supported it.
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 22:20 Chamath Palihapitiya And so China has been able to, hold on, China has been very effectively able to manipulate this currency since they were brought into the WTO in order to engender that trading partner status.
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 58:42 Chamath Palihapitiya When you have a young population, so for example, take what China was 20 years ago when it entered the WTO, or what, uh, India is today.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 50:45 David Sacks Um, China into the World Trade Organization and giving them sort of MFN trading status that happened under Clinton, but it was absolutely a bipartisan decision. 2 times in the scene
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 17:53 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the real cataclysmic change on top of all of this, which sealed the fate of that trend line happened, uh, in point number three, which is when George, George Bush, uh, in 2001 had this really seminal decision, which is he had the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, I think I think there's one big thing you're forgetting in 2001, which is, I think that Bush actually traded away access to the WTO so that they could guarantee China's vote when he wanted to go to war with Iraq, which happened in… 2 times in the scene
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- ▶ 46:47 Chamath Palihapitiya Brought him into the World Trade Organization.