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The Centralized East vs. The Decentralized West | The Balaji Series | Episode 6 (WiM120)

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Jan 24, 2022
Guest
Balaji Srinivasan
A geopolitical chess match takes shape between China’s centralized power and the West’s decentralized societies. The discussion ranges from Bitcoin’s potential to unsettle states and reshape sovereignty to cyber defense, migration, India’s role, and the rise of network states and new political collectives.
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Monroe Doctrine in China
02:06 • 2min
3
Are You Now More Freedom of Navigation Patrols Were the Us?
04:20 • 2min
4
The Global Power Has to Win Once, Right?
06:35 • 2min
5
China Is a Champ
08:55 • 2min
6
What Happens to the Dollar and Other Things?
10:43 • 3min
7
The Next Conflict Looks Like the American Civil War of 1861
13:33 • 4min
8
Is India a Dark Horse in the Decentralized World?
17:31 • 2min
9
The Future of Cryptocurrency
19:28 • 3min
10
The Great Firewall
22:11 • 2min
11
Is China the Most Internally Centralized Economy?
24:20 • 3min
12
Decentralization and China's Future?
27:08 • 2min
13
Maximism Is the Property of Others, Right?
28:54 • 2min
14
Is Bicoin a Tribal Warfare?
31:20 • 2min
15
Youo Stas Together, Right?
33:38 • 2min
16
The Decentralized World Versu China
35:41 • 3min
17
Decentralization vs Centralization
38:17 • 2min
18
Is Bichoin on a Four Year Clock?
40:33 • 3min
19
The Problem With Centralization and Decentralization
43:05 • 2min
20
What's Going to Happen in the 20th Century?
45:13 • 2min
21
Bion Wins
47:06 • 2min
22
Biin Wins, It's a Consent Based World
49:29 • 4min
23
China Without the Us Is a Different Animal
53:39 • 3min
24
Is There a Way to Get Rid of Cryptocurrencies?
56:18 • 3min
25
The Market Cap of a Cryptocurrency Chain
59:31 • 3min
26
Decentralization, I Think, Allows for the Sovereign Collective
01:02:20 • 2min
27
Cryptocurrency
01:04:13 • 3min