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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where China comes up
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 23:49 Pierre Poilievre And we can ensure that our continent is secure from Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and Iranian threat by doing our part in the Arctic.
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 44:13 Jim Murphy Someone has an idea in China, and we can see it right away in America.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 1:20:28 Anthony Scilipoti In fact, I, I did a trip to China, uh, life-changing practically earlier this year. 2 times in the scene
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 6:53 Lulu Cheng Meservey Or the people who are really passionate about robotics, or the people who are really worried about conflict with China. 2 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 27:40 Benedict Evans Will China catch up to a true answer?
- ▶ 1:11:17 Benedict Evans What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone, and Tesla is just selling, and in that metaphor, Tesla is just another Android phone maker, and they're competing with the whole Chinese industrial policy.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 22:21 Shane Parrish Oxford now dominates Japan's frozen wild blueberry market, and then he went to Korea, and now he's working on China.
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 5:03 Ryan Petersen We were like buying motorcycles in China and selling them on the internet in the U.S. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 Shane Parrish So if we think of the beats between being in China and ending up in Silicon Valley, what are they? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 Ryan Petersen Some guy bought like a bouncy house for his kid's birthday party in China because he was too cheap to buy one locally, like stuff like that.
- ▶ 35:14 Ryan Petersen You could ship a container from China to the U.S. for, our cost was like 600 dollars.
- ▶ 36:48 Ryan Petersen And we actually got a ton of demand to ship masks to China for the doctors in China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:53 Ryan Petersen Won't charge us 200,000 dollars to fly a Dreamliner to China and back.
- ▶ 1:06:24 Ryan Petersen Um, and he, in his current administration, he said that in the Trump one, first term, that the tariffs on China paid for one third of the tax cuts that Trump did.
- ▶ 1:10:45 Ryan Petersen So when tariffs were at one 45 on China, we helped a lot of companies move into bonded warehouses because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:30 Ryan Petersen You can just, or Canada, or most of Western Europe, so you can just, they set up this shell company in whatever country, it could be China, it could be anywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:47 Ryan Petersen If you bought it, like there was a middleman or an agent that bought it in China and marked it up to you, you can actually import the goods at the price they paid, not the price you paid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:44 Ryan Petersen And when I lived in China, I got a copy of that book. 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 57:45 Bret Taylor And I think you're seeing it play out, as you said, in, in really different ways in Canada, United States, Europe, China, elsewhere.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 45:18 Shane Parrish It seems from the outside looking in a lot of what he's trying to do is slow the rise of China. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:45 Pierre Poilievre China, it's 14 tons of carbon for every ton of aluminum. 2 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 29:53 Bruce Flatt Some of it needs to be next to customer, um, because they get caught during COVID that all of a sudden all my manufacturing's in China. 3 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 4:06 Josh Wolfe Uh, everything from US-China competition to, uh, Iran-Israel, access of religious conflict, the Sahel and Maghreb in Africa, which is not an area that a lot of people talk about or think about, that I believe with low probability, super…
- ▶ 10:25 Josh Wolfe I think Micron is a US company which is going to be more constrained by restrictions that are put on export control, and I think SK being a Korean company is going to be able to skirt those in the same way that NVIDIA has with, you know,…
- ▶ 23:15 Josh Wolfe Then you have sovereign models, so there are countries that are saying we don't want to be beholden to the US or to China.
- ▶ 34:00 Josh Wolfe I mean, we still have very cheap labor in Foxconn factories in China and Vietnam and elsewhere now doing that, but there's no reason for that over time.
- ▶ 1:30:21 Josh Wolfe And Russia, and who thought that we were gonna see a land war, you know, in the 21st century, where Russia would invade Ukraine, and, uh, China, and Taiwan, and North Korea, and the African continent, as we talked about, and the Sahel and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:20 Josh Wolfe China has the fifty-cent army. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:19 Josh Wolfe Which I'll give you first, which is I would really put priority on Africa as a continent, and particularly that's Sahel and Maghreb, because I do believe between violent extremists, Russian mercenaries, China infrastructure, you are one… 5 times in the scene