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GM34: When Geopolitics meets Global Macro ft. Jacob Shapiro & Roger Hirst

Top Traders Unplugged

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What's the Difference Between Xi and Mao?

Xi's family suffered from Mao's craziness. Xi absolutely wants centralized control and I think he wants that centralized control to deal with all the things that we just talked about, but he's trying to balance between not becoming Mao. In terms of China's geopolitical ambitions, this is like one of the biggest questions in the world right now. They literally can't do it. A lot of people worry today about China invading Taiwan. I don't over the next two to five years because they don't have the ships and they don'thave the planes. Wake me up when they can actually get more than 20,000 marines to China, excuse me, to Taiwan.

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