Competition with China and Friend-shoring in East Asia ft. Noah Smith
The New Liberal Podcast
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Are You Optimistic About China?
I've always been kind of bearish on China in particular for several reasons, just that I think their growth is going to slow down. And they're sitting on a demographic time bomb that in some ways is going to be even worse than what we think of in like Japan. But regarding Japan, I don't really know, Japan is sort of in a leftist phase. Leftist ideas are really rising in Japan. You know, everyone's reading these sort of anti-capitalist books and the intellectual trend in Japan is toward leftist ideas. So then I think that Japan could use a bit more redistribution, absolutely, and a bit more a better social safety net, but really what it needs is
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