What If China Was Stronger Than The US?

This one was a lot of fun to make. Early on in this channel’s history I played around with scripted skits a bit more, and it was fun to get back into it. I’ve long been incredulous about the way that China-US relations are covered. US media seems utterly incapable of looking at things in their proper context. It seems obvious to me that China is heading in the wrong direction, and US media loves to document that. Where most US news sources fall short, however, is in explaining why China has turned a bit nuts. There’s a very involved history of US antagonism that led us to where we are, and China’s actions, while horrific, aren’t really an effective counter to anything we have been doing. I don’t want to excuse China’s behavior, but I don’t think we should obscure the US’s part in it.

I’ve made videos covering this material before, but I thought it might be fun to do it what I hope is a more breezy and amusing scripted format. What if we re-ran the past ten years of US China relations, but with China as the more powerful party rather than the United States? Today’s video is a thought experiment, and an experimental video as well. Let me know what you think!

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SPACs Are An Economy Crashing Scam

Today’s video is about something that seems quite boring on the surface. The folks who are pushing SPACs, or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, desperately want you to believe that they are boring. Just another way to structure capital markets! They’re anything but that. They’re exactly the sort of thing that blows up markets and sinks economies. This may not look like geopolitics on the surface, but it’s likely that SPACs will have world-wide significance. I suspect you’ll be getting ahead of the game if you understand them now.

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