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Competition with China and Friend-shoring in East Asia ft. Noah Smith
The New Liberal Podcast
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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