Is China a Democracy?

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I agree with some things that the us. Wold wild draw from the world. A shale oil is important. I think he's all so bsh in india. Butr but on china, ah, you know, they ship things to everywhere in the world? Do i think they can roll out a blue water navy? Absolutely. They have probably more experience with that than anybody else. If you cannot build in the physical word in the small, you're not able to build in the large. This may be a super obvious point, but it's basely something where, um, the pushing out the manufacturing base has knock on consequences are less clear.

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country, set for release July 4, 2022.

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