Who Benefits from Decoupling: U.S. or China?

(0:00) Bestie intros! Dreamforce and another interesting conference take the Bay Area

(3:35) State of crime in SF, do they need the National Guard?

(20:48) US to impose price floors after China puts export controls on rare earths, can America on-shore a full-stack rare earth industry?

(36:15) State of US-China ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting, how we got here, China's elite mercantilism and strong economic history

(52:59) AI PR crisis: Recent datacenters get denied

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