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“Malaysia has emerged as this neutral place where all, every company, yeah, all the AI companies are building data centers there. Because it's right next to Singapore, which is a massive trading hub, but then it's also independent between like China and America…”

“The, like, GLP-I's were, like, widely available for, like, five years before they came to America, and a lot of rich people were going abroad to get them.”

“We have planes and cars and they go everywhere and we don't need trains. And in fact, America does have a fantastic rail system. We just use it for freight because America is a lot bigger than France to Germany.”

“I do think that there's an interesting thesis I heard that the path to real re-industrialization in America is not Not through trying to play the last war, but instead focusing on the next war, which is humanoid robotics, and if we really get that right, and w…”

“The other thing to highlight under here that was seemingly monumental was TSMC actually starting to produce chips here in America.”

“The 70, 77% of Chinese agreeing with the statement, AI will lead to many new jobs created in my country, contrasts pretty, pretty dramatically with America's 36%.”

“Pretty ridiculous to ban automation in a port. Just putting America at a competitive disadvantage.”

“I don't think Google should be broken up for two main reasons. One is, it's not even in the interest of America for Google to be broken up. And number two is, it doesn't actually increase competition. It's just gonna, like transfer from one monopoly to another…”

“Like, the genie's out of the bottle. China versus America. That race is already going on. Nobody's gonna slow down and everybody wants glory. Nobody cares about the other people or something. Everybody wants glory and some kind of power to control the future.”

“We can have a new Monroe doctrine of like reshoring everything within this hemisphere. And I think that's more of like a reasonable and also quite more achievable Task than just saying everything has to come back into America.”

“I think America should have the largest GPU cluster in the world as a deterrent.”

“We do have 250,000 factories in America that are making all kinds of products, so they exist.”

“The typical utilization rate of a factory in America is less than 2000 hours a year. This, the comparable number in China is 7500 hours a year, right? Like there's 8700 possible production hours in a given year. The vast majority of American factories are sitt…”

“Xi Jinping would cut off his left hand for the basic research university industrial complex, which America has, which no other country in the world can hold a candle to until 20 until late 20 25. Where every single good STEM PhD and STEM and STEM professor who…”

“Like we have 10 X growth in America compared to Europe, same people, same products, same everything.”

“Like we have 10 X growth in America compared to Europe, same people, same products, same everything.”

“It wasn't till 1919 that people were even started to think about taking on debt or anything like that in the country to then go trade. It was really a function of General Motors, by the way. General Motors started loaning money to people to buy cars. That was,…”

“It's governments and it's ones who are, who have a long tenure. You look at America, You know, the presidential cycle is four years. So, I don't know if that's necessarily long-term incentives.”

“If AGI happens in 15 years, China is more likely to get it because they're on a steeper energy ramp than we are. But if AGI happens sooner, and it's, and it is just sort of an algorithmic breakthrough, like we do have an advantage in America because we have mo…”

“America is very much like addicted to Chinese solar panels right now. Like the Chinese solar panels come here, they're cheap. And so we don't wind up buying or building a domestic solar panel industry because just to get anything off the ground, you have to go…”

“It's possible because the surrounding society cross-subsidizes them. So you can't have a third of America being Amish. And I think they keep people in the fold because it is pretty small and tightly knit. And were there, say, three or four million Amish, which…”

“If he hadn't worked on that, probably wouldn't have a rocket company in America.”

“Add it all up, and the economist estimates that AI so far has created around one million new jobs in America that easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 layoffs attributed to AI since mid-twenty-twenty-three.”