238: Inside the Dragon’s Strategy: John Perkins on China’s Global Impact
The Expat Money Show - With Mikkel Thorup
Predatory Capitalism
The global economy today is really run by a few large businesses and their owners, people they call the corporatocracy. It's predatory and sold under the guise of helping the poor become better off than bringing people out of poverty. And statistically again, we can show that when you develop these infrastructure projects, the GDP rises.
TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH JOHN PERKINS:
- Listen in to hear John explain in detail what an “Economic Hitman” - or “EHM” strategy is from his own personal experience implementing it on behalf of first-world nations and banking elites and how he came to understand the dark side of what he was doing.
- John details the predatory nature of the EHM strategy and the devastating effects it has had on third-world nations. You won’t believe the shocking statistics about the average age in Africa.
- Hear John reveal the nefarious methods the EHM strategists use to manipulate statistics like GDP to display positive effects on the economy while the underlying reality paints a much bleaker picture for the citizens of the nations targeted by it.
- Then we discuss the difference between honest entrepreneurship - the kind that I practice in my business - and “cronyism” or “predatory capitalism.”
- John explains how China has shifted its own economic hitman strategy under President Xi Jinping over the last ten years and their nefarious motivations for doing so.
- We dig into what John describes as the “death economy” - as the EHM competition between the leaders of China and the United States wreaks economic havoc across the globe.
- John and I further discuss current global political issues and the different levels of attention conflicts in Ukraine and Yemen receive from the media and the general public.
- John drives home how many individuals have embraced changes in the last three years and the need to change our perception of our current socio-economic and governmental systems.
- We discuss the very different perceptions of “success” in Latin America and how things like spending time with family and friends often take higher priority than the gain of material goods in that region.
- Lastly, we discuss China’s increasingly interwoven relationship with Latin America and the impacts, both positive and negative, on the region.
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https://johnperkins.orgCONCLUSION
I hope you enjoyed my conversation with John Perkins as much as I did. While we have very different worldviews, and I certainly don’t endorse all of his beliefs, John is an absolute hero for the work he has done exposing the nature of our corrupt global systems of banking and government. When it comes to the nature of our global systems, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better expert than John Perkins. I know you’ll get great value from this conversation!Mentioned in this episode:
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