"... when you talk to people in Beijing, they will ... point to 2 sources of really extraordinary dynamism in the US economy; 1 is tech and the other 1 is fracking. The other one you might add, thirdly, would be financial engineering. These are all zones in which [US]American capitalism ... doesn't encounter much regulation or obstacle, and is worldchanging, or at least has pretensions to be worldchanging."

#AdamTooze, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-tooze.html

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#podcasts #EzraKlein

Opinion | Is America’s ‘Rupture’ China’s Moment?

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order.

The New York Times
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I hope this "China moment" doesn't result in exported Chinese authoritarianism. Would it?
#China #globalpolitics