Assertion Not checkable as stated
Helberg: China is actively decoupling from the US and de-risking failure points
“China is on a path to decoupling from us and de-risking all of its single points of failure.”
Opinion
Helberg: France Has Long Lacked an Actual Right-Wing Government Option
“Frankly, in France for a long time, I think one of the frustrations that the public has had is that the options that a lot of people have had in politics is a left, is a left wing leftist government and a right wing leftist government. And there has lacked, yo…”
Assertion Supported
Helberg: Pax Silica Countries Are Growing 4% YoY Versus 1% for G7
“The Paxilica countries are growing roughly around four percent year on year compared to G seven countries that are growing somewhere in the zone of one percent.”
Opinion
Helberg: US Software Companies Objectively Lead China in AI Model Development
“With that being said, our software companies are better by a lot. I mean, it's, we are objectively leading in, in AI and in model development.”
Assertion Supported
Helberg: China Criminalized Due Diligence on Official Economic Indicators
“You know, their data is really falsified, and they actually tried to hide their books so much so that they've made it illegal for people within China to ask too many questions or do due diligence on their economic indicators.”
Disclosure
Helberg: US is executing global deals in energy, minerals, and infrastructure
“And that's why we're doing deals around the world on energy, on minerals, and on infrastructure, and it's incredibly exciting about the progress we've made.”
Assertion Supported
Helberg: US Signed Deal for 4,000-Acre AI Industrial Park in Philippines
“Just last week we signed a historic deal with the Philippines, 4000 acres, right next to Subic Bay where we're gonna build a first-of-its-kind AI-native industrial park, and the goal is really to secure inputs that are vital for American and global supply chai…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Helberg: No technology in human history has caused mass unemployment
“In the history of human civilization, we have never encountered a time when you had a technology that led to mass unemployment.”
Insight
Helberg: China Resembles Late-1970s Soviet Union with Low Growth and Tech Power
“And so the interesting thing is that they are actually entering a phase where they're becoming a little bit more akin to, you know, where the Soviet Union was back in the late seventies, which is low growth, but still very, very technologically formidable.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Helberg: Trump maintains a very good rapport with Xi Jinping
“The president has been clear that he wants to have a positive impact. Constructive relationship with Xi Jinping, and he does. They actually have a very good rapport.”
Assertion Supported
Helberg: Israel Outperforms Nigeria in GDP and Military Power Despite Population Gap
“You can see that with a country like Israel that has less than twenty million people that has a bigger GDP and a stronger military than Nigeria that has a quarter billion people and it just goes to show how tiny Israel actually has a larger economy than a quar…”
Assertion Contradicted
Helberg: US is currently seeing five percent productivity growth
“I mean, we're at five percent productivity growth.”
Assertion Supported
Helberg: The PC revolution displaced 3.5M jobs but created 19M
“If you look at the computer revolution, people would have said that personal computers would have put a lot of secretaries out of work, but in reality, the PC revolution gave birth to the software industry, and it displays three and a half million jobs, but it…”
Disclosure
Helberg: US aims for Pax Silica hubs in every hemisphere by year-end
“We want to have one in every hemisphere. We think it makes a lot of sense and we obviously want them to be connected. And so we're having lots of really great conversations with a number of our partners. We hoped, we hope to basically reach that goal before th…”
Assertion Supported
Helberg: Pax Silica Coalition Currently Comprises 14 Partner Countries
“Paxlica is an economic security coalition with a group of now 14 countries that each bring unique industrial capabilities to bear to help secure our supply chains.”
Disclosure
Helberg: Pax Silica Plans Three More Economic Security Zones by June
“We're planning on ruling out three more by the end of June.”
Jacob Helberg