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Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)

Uncertain Things

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Is China a Superpower?

Adam Sobel: What makes a power great is economic productivity, technological innovation, social cohesion and national will. He says the U.S. has been in that cold war for at least four or five years; Chinese have probably been in their own minds for longer than that. Sobel: We don't have the military industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower worried about because we are really no longer the world's dominant manufacturing power. In any case, you can feel very lacking in social cohesion until someone attacks your territory and kills your people," he said.

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