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Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong) Jul 30, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:14 Joe Lonsdale China debate stuff, but before we go there, like, you know, when you talk to the guys around Anthropic, like Dario, at least a few months ago, was saying these things are gonna double every few months, and I can already see the next two… 4 times in the scene

America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild Jul 24, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:53 Joe Lonsdale If you have hundreds of, you know, ships having a war, and China has hundreds of ships, and they're reacting in real time with AI, you're probably gonna want to react in real time with AI, too, and you're gonna probably want to give more…
  • ▶ 16:06 Emil Michael Um, if China, the China has them, we have to have them to make sure there's, there's balance there, and we can secure peace.
  • ▶ 18:19 Emil Michael North Korea, Iran, Russia, China.
  • ▶ 31:13 Kevin Mandia And in reality, no modern nation, even the folks that can create this capability, China, Russia, others will leverage it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:17 Joe Lonsdale The Chinese ones might be even easier.

Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution Jul 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:42 Alex Kolicich If you look at the Industrial Revolution in Russia in the early 20th century, I think investment as a percentage of GDP got up to 20 or 25%, and then China was investing 2 times in the scene

SpaceX’s Secret, Nuclear's Rebirth, and the AI Power Crisis · Joe Lonsdale Jun 5, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Scott Nolan In 2010, we were completely tied neck and neck with China on grid total capacity. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04 Joe Lonsdale China has gone in the last 15 years from the same amount of power as us, the three times the amount of power they're adding in Texas to their grid every year.
  • ▶ 20:09 Joe Lonsdale He's very impressed by how much power China's making overall.
  • ▶ 34:58 Scott Nolan To these countries, they will have to get it somewhere else as they build up their nuclear fleet, or they turn back on their nuclear fleet, and that'll be Russia, China.

Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale May 19, 2026 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 1:27 Joe Lonsdale How is China pushing back? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:15 Jacob Helberg China is on a path to decoupling from us and de-risking all of its single points of failure.
  • ▶ 3:14 Jacob Helberg A lot of those factories depend on so many different inputs that come from all corners of the world, and right now there is a massive over-concentration of those inputs from China, and so the goal is we are walking and chewing gum at the…
  • ▶ 14:24 Jacob Helberg Um, China has 1.4 billion people, therefore they will inevitably, you know, become the largest economy because if, you know, you just, if their, um, uh, GDP per capita, you know, rises remotely close to ours, obviously they're gonna… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:30 Joe Lonsdale How do you assess China's capabilities in the AI race?
  • ▶ 19:33 Jacob Helberg So, you know, it's interesting because China is, without a doubt, our, our most formidable competitor. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:42 Jacob Helberg You know, China basically has done the Belt and Road Initiative for 25 years now, and it's basically, you know, the Chinese government has these state-owned enterprises and in-house where they basically, you know, implement a lot of these… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:44 Joe Lonsdale You guys are having a hugely positive impact and it's, it's, it's, it's China trying to push back on pack silk at all. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:33 Joe Lonsdale If you look up China's Belt and Road, and you go to these countries, 4 times in the scene

Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale May 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:45 Shyam Sankar So today we look like the Germans and the Chinese look,
  • ▶ 37:57 Joe Lonsdale If you have hundreds of, you know, ships having a war, and China has hundreds of ships, and they're reacting in real time with AI, you're probably gonna want to react in real time with AI, too, and you're gonna probably want to give more…

Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale Apr 30, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17 Joe Lonsdale Ben and his team plan to make money for the American people while cementing our alliances, pushing back on China, making sure the next century is the next great American century.
  • ▶ 10:27 Joe Lonsdale And then China would come in and like do the minerals deal.
  • ▶ 14:41 Ben Black We let China into the WTO.
  • ▶ 19:35 Ben Black To block choke points from China and Belt and Road, but also to move the needle for others. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:15 Joe Lonsdale But for our defensive purposes, there's certain things we have to have here, and we can't just like have, if China's doing it cheaper than us, that might be the right market solution, but it's definitely not the right military defense or… 3 times in the scene

How to Turn $15K Into $1M in 2026 · Joe Lonsdale Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

How 200mph Flying Taxis Will End Traffic Jams Apr 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:06 Joe Lonsdale So speaking of limits on the regulatory side, China's also racing forward in air taxis.

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:20 Alex Kolicich And there's a long-term question, I think, where does the open source Chinese models or otherwise, do they catch up when they're close enough where everything is commoditized?
  • ▶ 51:53 Alex Kolicich If you look at the Industrial Revolution in Russia in the early 20th century, I think investment as a percentage of GDP got up to 20 or 25%, and then China was investing 2 times in the scene

AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale Feb 4, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06 Joe Lonsdale If there's a break in, if there's an attack, if there's bad guys coming to get you from North Korea or China or Russia or some other place, Kevin's the guy you call if it's a really serious situation.
  • ▶ 3:43 Joe Lonsdale Is this random kids, or was this China? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:01 Kevin Mandia Hey, China and Russia are really doing this.
  • ▶ 26:59 Kevin Mandia And in reality, no modern nation, even the folks that can create this capability, China, Russia, others will leverage it. 2 times in the scene

Investing in 2026: What You Need to Know (SEC Chairman) · Joe Lonsdale Jan 26, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:27 Joe Lonsdale For example, and we deal a lot with China in a lot of different contexts. 3 times in the scene

Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale Jan 9, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 5:05 Emil Michael Um, and people don't quite see China as the, as a great power rivalry, but it is, both economically and militarily. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:42 Emil Michael Um, if China, the China has them, we have to have them to make sure there's, there's balance there, and we can secure peace.
  • ▶ 16:55 Emil Michael North Korea, Iran, Russia, China.
  • ▶ 26:02 Joe Lonsdale So, and tell us, does China have the equivalent of this? 4 times in the scene

What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale Nov 21, 2025 · 13 mentions

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:43 Max Meyer And so, it turned out that at the same career fair, there were four or five Chinese state-owned telecom companies, and so I wrote a little piece that, you know, if you're, if you're really socially conscious, and you're, you know, you're,… 3 times in the scene

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 12 mentions

From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale Aug 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 27:51 Ian Cinnamon Well, I'll tell you what our friends in China are doing. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:25 Ian Cinnamon So what I would just say is like, if the, and those are Chinese government satellites, not some commercial company in China. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:38 Joe Lonsdale The, especially because China is building a lot of nukes, unfortunately, right now, which is a terrifying conversation.
  • ▶ 40:16 Joe Lonsdale But really, China's, like, the adversary that, unfortunately, we have to be most concerned about in trying to do this as well. 8 times in the scene

Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale Jul 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:21 Reid Hoffman My big worry in the, the competition with China, look, there's, there's all kind of worries about, like, will we move fast enough?

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:16 Joe Lonsdale You've probably heard as he goes to China and in the giant Chinese construction projects, they have thousands of people with shovels and they're digging things. 2 times in the scene

From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2025 · 9 mentions

Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale Jun 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:41 Dave Rubin You got a fancy suit with a pinstripe and I just got this like drop ship from China and I feel, I feel that I've done you a disservice here.

Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale Jun 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:40 Steve Hilton And it's not just on this issue, you know, on COVID, on the lockdowns, on vaccine mandates, on the origin of the virus, but also on, on issues like China, you know, I was like really first out of the gate on that, um, decades ago,… 2 times in the scene

How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale Jun 4, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 20:25 Joe Lonsdale I love that you got there before China and it's a very forward looking kingdom.
  • ▶ 24:23 JoeBen Bevirt You, you see countries, uh, like China, where, uh, the, the CAC, which is the Chinese equivalent of, of the FAA, is very forward-leaning, and they're already, uh, have, uh, companies in this sector that are certified, and then you have the…
  • ▶ 25:09 Joe Lonsdale So, so, so tell me, I think I've seen China has like these drones that are maybe competing with you, but a lot of them don't have wings, which seems way more dangerous. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:25 Joe Lonsdale I guess we shouldn't tell the Chinese listening your secrets.

Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale Apr 17, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 9:59 Peter Thiel I think they were, half of them were made in China, which was, you know, but, but, um, and then of course there was probably some, you know, there's some steel man version where the, the, it was just a decoy and there was really a lot of…
  • ▶ 25:41 Joe Lonsdale Let's, I want to ask you, we've been talking about China on and off for over 20 years and their imbalances. 10 times in the scene

Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale Apr 3, 2025 · 106 mentions

  • ▶ 0:18 Tom Cotton China targets state and local officials. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:29 Joe Lonsdale And then we jump into China. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:11 Joe Lonsdale Senator, you're the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, member of the Armed Services Committee, and recently the author of a new book, Seven Things You Can't Say About China. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:06 Joe Lonsdale Before we jump into the book in China and the CCP, I want to go over a few hot topics right now.
  • ▶ 8:40 Joe Lonsdale You know, as we shift gears to China,
  • ▶ 10:33 Tom Cotton I suspect most of the evidence has been, uh, destroyed in Wuhan and anyone in China who knew about it has probably been disappeared. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:22 Joe Lonsdale Uh, and that, that, that, that is one of my great fears is that the left ends up partnering with China. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:53 Joe Lonsdale I actually lost a, a good friend who was a Chinese citizen who was a tech billionaire who said no to them, and he died in his sleep right after doing so in his forties, and so this is, 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:21 Joe Lonsdale Senator, China's waging an economic world war. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:06 Joe Lonsdale Let's go to number four from your side is China has infiltrated our society. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:48 Joe Lonsdale China has infiltrated our government. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:50 Joe Lonsdale Number six in your book is China is coming for our kids. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:41 Joe Lonsdale And it's how some Chinese billionaires, by the way, joked to me about it very rudely is that there's a reverse opium war going on over the last decade. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:43 Joe Lonsdale Number seven, uh, your last one, uh, China could win. 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:41 Joe Lonsdale I want to ask, I want, I want to say something nice about China, not about CCP, cause I'm a hundred percent aligned with you on the trouble with the CCP. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:08 Joe Lonsdale I do hope that one day I get to work with the Chinese people there again, because it's, it's, it would be amazing. 7 times in the scene

Exercise Scientist: How AI & “Miracle Drugs” Can Make You Superhuman · Joe Lonsdale Mar 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:55 Dr. Mike Israetel There are exceptions to that when you design a system purposefully to be nefarious, which is why China's AI situation highly concerns me.

How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale Feb 14, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 18:00 Tim Urban Risking or slowing down and risking that China gets ahead of us and now has a massive technological advantage that might be, you know, permanent. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:50 Tim Urban And so, um, that's the, one of the nice things about today, you know, if you're in Maoist China and this is going on, I mean, A, they're using physical violence.

The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 9:20 Brendan McCord And you have China creating the great firewall and the social credit system that creates this web of conformity and control. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:42 Brendan McCord I mean, the most, like the, the clear example is China though.

AI Vs Engineers: Will They Be Replaced? · Joe Lonsdale Dec 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:09 Joe Lonsdale Originally, there was a lot of talent in China was number two.
  • ▶ 15:41 Dylan Sirota Um, we've seen many companies hire folks and then all of a sudden that engineer's logging in from China

Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale Nov 29, 2024 · 1 mention

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale Nov 22, 2024 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:16 Steve Blank On a good day, China operates like Silicon Valley, and if we're really lucky on that same day, the DoD is operating like General Motors.
  • ▶ 14:19 Steve Blank Now, all of a sudden, all those things that were owned primarily by the DOD and IC are now commercial products and half of them being made in China. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:56 Joe Lonsdale There's widespread agreement in DC on some of the challenges of China and the need to innovate more rapidly. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:03 Steve Blank What did China do? 4 times in the scene

Economist Vs. Billionaire: How The Myth Of Income Inequality Is Dividing America · Joe Lonsdale Oct 25, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:12 Phil Gramm Well, the first place I ran into anything similar to that was in China, interestingly enough, where that was the first place you ever could, you know, hold a card up to something and have it register, and they were way ahead. 2 times in the scene
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