In China’s Shadow (Robert Wright & Sebastian Strangio)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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What Is Great Power Autism?
It's a good example of what people rightly say about America, which is that it preaches rule based order. And on the other hand, violates the rules. Oh, there's a funny quote. Well, it has to do with naval power, but it's like we rule the waves and therefore wave the rules or somebody. Right. That was the, that was often said about them. Yeah. There's another interesting phrase, what's it called great power autism, which, you know, and of course it's kind of an insensitive phrase. I mean, yeah, it's pretty profound irony.
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